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Taproot issue 51 - June 2006
Ex-Presidents Corner
Now that I am Executive Director of TAP and Andrea Bryan is Board President I guess I should change the name of this article. Maybe I should call it “The Corner”…J. If you have suggestions for a name let me know. The last time I asked you guys to help with a name it was when we changed our name from Tabor Adoptive Parents to Together as Adoptive Parents. We all wanted to keep TAP so we only needed to pick something that started with the letter “T”. Some of your suggestion were, “Terrible Adoptive Parents”, Terrific Adoptive Parents”, “Troubled Adoptive Parents”, even “Trump’s Adoptive Parents”. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. The last few months have been very busy for TAP.
In April we hosted a one-day subsidy training in Philadelphia.
As you all know May was “National Foster Care Month”. Three out of the four weekends in May TAP was participating in some event to bring attention to the children and youth in our foster care system.
May 5th – 7th we were allowed to be part of the Montco Bible Fellowship Church missionary weekend. We give out lots and lots of information on adoption, foster care, and support services.
On May 13th we held an event to bring attention to the 1300 children and youth that are in the foster care system in Pennsylvania that do not have an identified resources (a family to adopt them). TAP hosted a “Blue Balloon Day.” The Pennsylvania’s State Foster Parent Association donated 1300 blue balloons to us with the message “Consider Being a Foster Parent, 1-800-951-5151, www.psfpa.com” on them. DHS in Philadelphia gave us “PhillyKids Connection; Snapshots of Philadelphia’s Children Awaiting Adoption” books to give out. With permission from our local Wal-Mart, TAP set up an adoption and foster care exhibit table. We started at 7:30am and ended just before the rain came at 3:00. We were able to give out over a thousand balloons (minus the few that blew away or popped) and all of the books. We had so much fun!!
On May 20th TAP held it’s annual fundraiser, a yard sale where we continued to give out balloons and information on adoption and foster care. May has been a very busy month for TAP. I would like to thank all of you who volunteered your time to help the helpless. You arrived at 7:30am to pick and set up tables for balloon day. You were there from beginning to the end. The following week you sorted and tagged clothes for the yard sale. You donated all the food and drinks that were sold and you were there from the beginning to the end. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
On June 3rd we traveled to Pittsburgh to host another one-day subsidy training (Thank you Sherry for all your help).
On June 17th TAP and PASS presented a Therapeutic Conference in Philadelphia for teens
At our regular meeting on June 24th our speaker will be Robert Hafetz. Robert is a therapist, author, and adoptee that searched for and found his birth family.
July 8th is our Board of Directors meeting. TAP is in great need of board members, if you are interested please give us a call.
July 22nd is our annual picnic
In August we rest!
September we start all over again
You may have noticed that our web site has a new look. We are at the end of a one-year grant that allowed us to update all the information on Taplink . We are now in the process of looking for a grant that will allow us to add new resources to the site.
The last three pages of this newsletter were written by some of TAP’s younger members. Enjoy!
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