Weekend Overview Area Hotels The Importance of Attending		Volunteering your Time Other Ways to Help Hotel Recommendations Contact the Vietnam Weekend Staff

 

Weekend Overview

Families who have adopted children from Vietnam will have the opportunity to get together in Tulsa, OK, for a weekend of fun and cultural activities for both parents and children.  Dillon's Vietnam Heritage Weekend is open to ALL adoptive families (regardless of agency used for adoption placement) who have adopted from Vietnam. 

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Area Hotels

We recommend the following hotels that are within the area around Green Country Event Center.  Please contact the individual hotel to check room availability and to make reservations.

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Volunteering Your Time
Heritage camps and weekends could not happen without the sacrificial efforts of countless volunteers.  Volunteers are used in every capacity at Vietnam Heritage Weekend and we applaud you for taking part this year!   

Adult volunteers - If you would like to volunteer, please fill out the volunteer application and background check.  We will send you a confirmation once we have received your volunteer application. 

Prior to the beginning of Vietnam Heritage Weekend, we will send you a schedule of your volunteer hours and assignments. 

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Other Ways to Help

Open Your Home -- If you have an extra bedroom that you would be willing to offer to an out-of-town camp family as a place to stay in lieu of a hotel, please let us know.  Saving hotel fees could make all the difference in whether an out-of-town family is able to attend camp this year and have a chance to give their child(ren) the "heritage camp experience."

Donate to the Camp Scholarship Fund --  We also accept donations to provide scholarships to children to be able to attend camp, who otherwise would be unable to participate, and/or "family grants" to assist traveling families with their motel fees so that they may attend camp.

For more information on how your family can help a fellow camp family and share the camp experience together, email Rosalyn or call 918.749.4600.

Also, if you know of a family who needs help to attend, please let us know.

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Resource List from Melanie Chung-Sherman's "Adoption 101" presentation:

• How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber

• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic by Foster Cline

• Being Adopted; The Lifelong Search for Self by David Brodzinsky, Marshall Schechter, & Robin Henig

• Making Sense of Adoption by Lois Melina

• The Whole Life Adoption Book by Jayne Schooler

• Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O'Malley

• Voices from Another Place edited by Susan Seum-Cox

• Twenty Things that Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

• Evan B. Donaldson Institute (2008) Finding Families for African-American Children: The Role of Race and Policy in Adoption Law  New York: Evan B. Donaldson Institute

• The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis, PhD and David Cross, PhD

• Talking with Your Child About Adoption by Carol L. Demuth, LCSW, Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services

• Developing Positive Racial and Cultural Identity by Joseph Crumbley, PhD, LCSW

• Beneath the Mask by Debbie Riley and C.A.S.E.

• The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families through the Years by Elinor B. Rosenburg

• Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families by Myra Alperson

• Online resources:

  • http://www.adoptivefamilies.com

  • http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/talking

  • http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs.f_stages/f_stages.pdf

  • http://www.perspectivespress.com/item.asp?recordid=absexedadopt&pagestyle=default

  • http://www.rainbowkids.com

  • http://www.adoptioninstitute.org

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