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The Washington Beat
By Alicia Groh


Alicia Groh is the executive director of Voice for Adoption in Washington, D.C., a national nonprofit membership organization dedicated to speaking out for the nation's waiting children in foster care.

 


Advocating for Foster Parents and Children
By Rita Laws, Ph.D.

Rita Laws, Ph.D., is the mother of 12 children; most arrived via adoption. She is one of the North American Council on Adoptable Children's representatives for Oklahoma and has been a special needs adoption advocate and author for 25 years. Her favorite hobby is spoiling her grandchildren.

 


Fostering Reading By Lee Tobin McClain, Ph.D.

Lee Tobin McClain, Ph.D., directs the Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University and is the author of three novels featuring teens in foster care: "My Loco Life," "My Abnormal Life" and "My Alternate Life." Visit her Web site at www.leemcclain.com.

 


Family Talk
Drs. James and Mary Kenny

James Kenny, Ph.D., is a founder of Adoption in Child Time, a child psychologist, adoption and foster care advocate, and member of the Fostering Families TODAY advisory board. Mary Kenny, CPA, is the author of books and articles on parenting. She is a retired foster mom and editor for ACT ONE, the newsletter for Adoption in Child Time.They are parents and grandparents to a large family of young adults who joined the family through birth, foster care and adoption. They can be reached at (877) ACT-4Kids, (219) 866-8694 or marykenny@nwiis.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Alicia Groh

Rita Laws, Ph.D.

Lee Tobin McClain, Ph.D.

Drs. James and Mary Kenny


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