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2012 Live
Meeting Schedule
Jan 30 . . . . Dallas, TX
Feb 7 . . . . St. Louis, MO
Feb 7 . . . . . Tulsa, OK
Feb 11 . . . . Springdale, AR
Feb 11 . . . . Orange County, CA
Mar 13 . . . . Little Rock, AR
Mar 16 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Mar 19 . . . . Dallas, TX
Mar 31 . . . . Orange County, CA
Apr 3 . . . . . St. Louis, MO
Apr 10 . . . . Little Rock, AR
Apr 10 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Apr 21 . . . . Springdale, AR
Apr 28 . . . . Orange County, CA
May 8 . . . . Little Rock, AR
May 14 . . . Dallas, TX
May 19 . . . . Tulsa, OK
June 2 . . . . Orange County, CA
Jun 5 . . . . . St. Louis, MO
Jun 12 . . . . Little Rock, AR
Jun 12 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Jul 10 . . . . Little Rock, AR
Jul 14 . . . . Orange County, CA
Jul 16 . . . . Dallas, TX
Jul 20 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Aug 7 . . . . St. Louis, MO
Aug 14 . . . .Tulsa, OK
Aug 25 . . . Springdale, AR
Aug 25 . . . . Orange County, CA
Sep 11 . . . . Little Rock, AR
Sep 15 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Sep 17 . . . . Dallas, TX
Sep 29 . . . . Orange County, CA
Oct 2 . . . . . St. Louis, MO
Oct 9 . . . . . Little Rock, AR
Oct 9 . . . . . Tulsa, OK
Oct 27 . . . . Springdale, AR
Oct 27 . . . . Orange County, CA
Nov 2 . . . . Tulsa, OK
Nov 5 . . . . Dallas, TX
Nov 13. . . . Little Rock, AR
Dec 1 . . . . Orange County, CA
Dec 4 . . . . St. Louis, MO
Dec 11 . . . .Tulsa, OK
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Independent Charities of America's Seal of Excellence
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OFFICE HOURS (CST)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM...Mon-Thurs
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM...FridayLOCATIONS:
In Oklahoma -- main office
3227 East 31st Street, #200
Tulsa, OK 74105
Voice: 918/749-4600
Fax: 918/749-7144
Email this office
In Arkansas --
4702 W. Commercial Dr., #B1
North Little Rock, AR 72116
and
1882 North Starr Road
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Voice: 501/791-9300
Fax: 501/791-9303
Email this
office
In California --
18001 Irvine Blvd., Suite 101
Tustin, CA 92780
Voice: 714/734-8600
Fax: NEW # 714 / 912-9583
Email this office
In Kansas --
2420 West 76th Street
Prairie Village, KS 66208
Voice: 913/544-2805
Email this office
In Missouri --
1 First Missouri Center, #115
St. Louis, MO 63141
Voice: 314/576-4100
Email this
office In Texas --
5200 South Buckner Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75227
Voice: 214/319-3426
Fax: 214/319-3470
Email this office
In Indiana --
Voice: 765/965-1195
Email our Midwest
Regional Coordinator
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registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is classified
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Discovery Days
July 23 - 25, 2012 |
Discovery Days
is a place for teen adoptees to come together and share their
insight and feelings regarding adoption and its impact on their
lives. It is also a great place for teens to make new
friends, build self-confidence, and ask questions while seeking
answers in a welcoming atmosphere.

Discovery Days follows
Christ-centered values and creates a safe environment for teens to have personal growth.
This year teens will have the
opportunity to relax around a pool and swim, challenge themselves on
a high ropes course while braving a zip line, and bond among friends
around a campfire.
Where:
Shepherd’s Fold Ranch
500 Broadway Avenue,
Avant, Oklahoma,
74001
Who:
Campers must be between the ages of 12 (by May 1, 2011)
through 12th grade recent high school graduates.
Costs:
$195.00 (This includes meals, snacks, T-shirt,
accommodations and activities.)
Download:

To ensure an accurate and
efficient registration process,
registrations should
be submitted by
July 6, 2012.
Partial scholarships are available.
Contact Rosalyn Metcalfe at 918-749-4600 or
rosalyn@dillonadopt.com for information. (If you would
like to help a young person attend Discovery Days who might not
otherwise be able to come, you can make a donation to Dillon's
Camp Scholarship Fund. For questions about donating to
this fund, please contact Dillon's Development Director, Tonnie
Dosser at 918-749-4600 or
email. In our efforts to constantly improve the camp
experience for your teens, we also welcome your general camp
donations!)
Contact Lisa
Leung at
lisa@dillonadopt.com or call us at the Dillon office
918-749-4600 with any questions or concerns.
Are you an adult adoptee with an interest in volunteering your
time to help at Discovery Days?
Then consider becoming a Discovery Days Counselor and
download
our counselor application here:

Mail all applications and payment to:
Dillon International,
3227 E 31 ST, Suite 200 Tulsa, OK 74105
Remember: To ensure an accurate and efficient
registration process,
Discovery Days applications should be submitted no later than
July 6, 2012.
D I S C O V E R I N G
By Melanie Chung Sherman
"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something;
and what I should do and can do,
by the Grace of God, I will do." --anonymous |
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The weekend started early in the morning, but
we were ready for over 60 teenage Korean adoptees to begin
descending upon the Dillon office.
Phones began ringing....papers flying...planes
arriving...luggage everywhere...with the excited teenage chatter
increasing as old friends were reunited and new acquaintances
made.
This would be a weekend strictly for adoptees, facilitated
by adoptees.
This was my first Discovery Weekend and I had
no idea what to expect.
I had already learned that the first weekend, which was
held in 1995, had had only five adoptees attending.
I marveled how much the weekend event had grown over the
past five years.
One of the first attendees shared with me how attending that
first Discovery Weekend had completely changed his life.
Until then he had never addressed his adoption story, his
being Korean, or his uniqueness.
Out of that first Discovery Weekend experience, he went on
to co-found a very influential adult adoptee group.
And so I was prepared for this to be a very powerful
weekend.
There
was no time to catch my breath as the day progressed, and soon
it was evening and time to depart for Shangri-La Resort.
I looked around the parking lot as we loaded luggage into
several cars and vans.
I felt at home surrounded by the sea of black hair, almond eyes,
and fellow adoptees who shared my hunger to be around others
with a similar adoption story. Feelings of excitement, contentment and relaxation washed
over me.
After arriving at the resort, we separated
into groups for discussions on racial identity, birth family,
the adoption process, peer pressure, dating and relationships.
Each group reminded me of my own childhood and the issues
that I had faced as I grew into adulthood.
As I listened to various teens, I became aware that the
issues they are confronting now seem more pressing than the
issues I had faced only five years before. However, the need to
"fit in" and the desire to be needed and accepted for who they
are hadn't changed.
I was reminded how the road to self-identity and
self-assurance has many twisting and winding curves, coupled
with questions about race, adoption, and heritage. The teens
were asking the same questions that I had once asked myself, and
I realized that the same hopes, fears, and doubts adoptees face
are timeless - unique in fashion but identical in pattern.
For many teen adoptees, this is perhaps one
of the most fragile, yet wonderful, times in their lives.
It is a time of discovery through questioning.
It is a time of clarity mixed with confusion and
apprehension. It is
a time to soar, reshape and redefine who they are, where they
are going and to reflect on where they have been.
Just like these teens, I had journeyed the same road to discover
what it meant to be Korean, American and everything in between.
Just like them, I had wondered about my heritage and birth
family, who I might look like, and how to fit in with peers,
family and American society.
But I also wondered how I would do on my SAT's, if I
would
have a date for homecoming, and whether I would pass my driver's
test on the first try.
The weekend proved to be as powerful as had
been promised and a strong reminder of the special function that
educational events such as Discovery Weekend provide for our
teens to get together and share their experiences and grow from
each other.
As parents and facilitators of teen weekend retreats,
remembering to keep an open door to adoptees' questions, fears,
joys and everyday experiences is vital and important in
maintaining healthy and strong relationships.
Although they may not openly talk about the issues
confronting them at this stage in their lives, it doesn't mean
that teens are not thinking about them.
Essentially, our teenagers just want to know that there
will always be someone there to hear them, to ask them how their
day was and to lend advice and support in an honest and loving
fashion.
Train a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not turn from it.
--Proverbs 22:6
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