Carolina Hope’s director Laura Beauvais-Godwin will be presenting during a break-out session at New Jersey’s 27th Annual “Let’s Talk Adoption” conference to be held on November 1. Laura’s session is entitled, “Openness in Adoption: A Birth Mother and an Adoptive Mother Tell Their Shared Story,” and presenting with her will be Margaret, the birthmother of one of Laura’s daughters.

More information about the conference is available at the conference website. (Laura is scheduled to speak during Session A.)

Here’s some additional information from the conference site:

Openness in Adoption: A Birth Mother and an Adoptive Mother Tell Their Shared Story

When Margaret was 17, she placed a child for adoption with a family that she had not met. Once the adoptive family, Ray and Laura, contacted her, they formed a phone relationship. Eventually Margaret and her husband adopted transracially. Margaret a birth and (and now adoptive) mother, and Laura, an adoptive mother and adoption professional, share their interwoven stories of how open adoption touched their lives.

Presented by Laura Beauvais-Godwin, Director Carolina Hope

New Jersey’s 27th Annual Let’s Talk Adoption Conference
November 1, 2008
Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
973-625-5628