Adoption Stories is a series of audio interviews with foster/adoptive families, adult adoptees, and adoption-support professionals in Windham County, VT.

Join creators and foster/adoptive parents Jo Dery (artist and educator) and Tamara Evanson (licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist) at the Brooks Memorial Library to learn about the project and hear from some of the participants. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Adoption Stories with Jo Dery and Tamara Evanson
Brooks Memorial Library, Community Meeting Room A
224 Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
7-8pm

Link to the Brooks Memorial Library event: https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/adoption-stories-with-jo-dery-and-tamara-evanson/

Link to the project: https://adoptionstoriesvt.com/

Children in foster care should be of concern to every Vermonter. There are 1,300 children in foster care across Vermont – 150 of them are in Windham County. In the past decade, our state's child welfare system has been, and remains, under great stress. The themes touched on in these interviews include trauma, grief, resilience, celebration, and community – as well as the role that race, class, gender, and the opioid and housing crises play in why children end up in foster care in Vermont. Through centering foster/adoptive children's and family's memories of the past and dreams for the future, Adoption Stories paints a picture of the complex experience of these kids and families – full of love, loss, beauty, and pain.

Adoption Stories was funded in part by a Brattleboro Town Arts Fund grant.

Event Info

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