S.T.A.R. NEWS is a free quarterly publication serving pre and post adoptive families. The focus is on adoption, parenting, agency news, adoption legislation, etc. Some editions include book reviews and information on upcoming events. Every edition features moving articles and poetry that allows the reader to gain insight, knowledge and more information on topics related to pre and post adoption and parenthood. Topics that have been addressed include: Open adoption, transracial parenting, post adoption issues, depression, talking to children about adoption, how to address adoption in the school curriculum, international adoption, infertility, etc.

To receive S.T.A.R. NEWS via regular mail place your name and address on the agency mailing list by contacting info@adoptionstar.com or by calling the agency directly and providing your information. In addition to the quarterly newsletter, a monthly emailed newsletter (a different publication) is sent out the first of every month. If you wish to receive the emailed monthly newsletters please also provide your email address(es).

Below you will be able to retrieve many of the older versions of the S.T.A.R. NEWS.

Volume 7, Issue 3 -- Spring 2008
Happy New Year! Adoption STAR hires a new Executive Director. Ground breaking study recommends adoptees get access to birth records. Do you have an adoption friendly workplace?

Volume 7, Issue 2 -- Winter 2007-2008
Happy National Adoption Awareness Month. Ten tips to talking to your child about adoption. Information about the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety act and how it affects adoptive and foster parents.

Volume 7, Issue 1 -- Fall 2007
What type of prospective adoptive parent are you? News about the Hague Accreditation Process; How to bring adoption into the classroom; Father’s Day photos; An adoptive mom writes about when a birth mother doesn’t want an open adoption.

Volume 6, Issue 4 -- Summer 2007
How an email changed one family’s life; Infertility an unexpected unanswered prayer; mothers day photos.

Issue 5, Number 1 -- August 2005
Open house and ribbon cutting; men becoming father’s, birth mother’s day celebration

Volume 4, Issue Number 4 -- May 2005
Adoption STAR has a new home; "Forever Changed" a submission from a birth mother; "What I Have Learned" a submissed from an adoptive mom; and photos of women becoming mothers.

Volume 4, Number 3 -- Winter 2005
A day in the life of a mom; Obtaining home study group statistics; Adoption STAR Baby Name Book now in print.

Volume 4 , Issue No 1 -- Summer 2004
An International Adoptive Mom shares her thoughts from the heart of a closed adoption; Rochester moms start play group; Father’s day photos.

Would you like to submit something to our newsletter?

Submissions may include:
Your adoption story
Poetry
Pictures
Pre or post adoption articles
Articles about parenthood and parenting
Experiences with infertility

If you’re interested in submitting, please do so by emailing us at info@adoptionstar.com.

*We can not promise submission will be printed.
**All submissions are subject to editing.