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Ms. Robin Sizemore, - Founder and Executive DirectorEmail: Robin is an adoptive mother and has been an adoption professional since 1995. In addition to placing children in forever families, Robin has been politically involved in issues of child welfare: she has brought educational opportunities to a variety of officials in Georgia and Armenia, spearheaded cooperative humanitarian efforts, and hosted numerous international delegations of through the U.S. State Department and Ministries in other countries which are associated with institutionalized children. Robin has a warm rapport with the wide range of individuals involved with children in need, including government officials, orphanage directors and staff, hospital and humanitarian aid administrators, and adoptive families and children alike. Robin and her husband James are the adoptive parents of the first internationally adopted child from Georgia and, with their second adoption, of the first direct “birthmother to adoptive mother” international placement in Georgia. In addition to their two beautiful children from Georgia, Robin and James have also been blessed with the surprise birth of their youngest and third child. Robin’s work is well regarded and highly respected in both Georgia and Armenia, and she is considered a valuable resource and thoughtful orphan advocate by U.S. and international officials as the result of her dedication to children and families through humanitarian assistance programs over more than a decade. Listen to an interview with Robin: 88.5 WFDD NPR "Voices and Viewpoints" Aug. 3, 2007 (copyright NPR, used by permission)
Joan McNamara, MS, Director of Social ServiceEmail: Joan, an adoptive parent, has a graduate degree in Social Services and almost 40 years experience in child welfare and adoption as an adoption worker, administrator, national and international consultant and trainer, and author. Her numerous articles, books, anthologies, and training curricula on child and family issues are used in a number of countries besides the U.S. and Canada. She has worked in public and private child welfare organizations and universities, including international child welfare projects. Her special interest and focus is on adoptive families and children with special needs who have come from foster care or institutional care. Joan and her husband Bernard have parented 13 children with special needs who came into their family through adoption, birth, foster care, international adoption and as refugees. Their children are now all adults, and Joan and Bernie are now greatly enjoying grandparenting. Mary E. Hamacher, Administrative ManagerEmail: Mary has a bachelor's degree in Health Information Management and has |
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