Information, support & advocacy
Current Events, Research, Surveys, Media requests, etc
INFERTILITY
Support Groups:
• Toronto: Infertility Network (2nd Tues of each month) July 14
• Edmonton: Infertility support group
Mind-Body Fertility Programs
• Toronto: Mind-Body Behavioural Medicine Fertility program
Researchers seek participants
• Fertility preservation (Montreal)
Surveys
• Fertility Survey
• Managing your infertility-related information with people in your social network
DONOR CONCEPTION
Media seeks interviews
• Donor offspring
• Embryo adoption/donation (Edmonton & Northern Alberta)
• Parents of donors
Political action
• Campaign vs Facebook Egg Donation Ads
• Canadian Donor Conception Coalition
• Rights for all donor-conceived people
Support groups/Workshops/Social Gatherings
• UK: Telling & Talking to Children about Donor Conception (ongoing)
• UK: Preparation for Donor Conception Parenthood (ongoing)
• Orange Country, CA: 3rd Annual Donor Sibling Gathering, July 18
Surveys
• Attitudes to release of information in open-identity donor programs
• Egg sharing (United Kingdom)
ADOPTION
Seminars & Conferences
• Toronto: 'How to adopt' seminars (ongoing)
• Toronto: Open adoption seminar, Nov 28
• Kingston: Open adoption seminar, Aug 15
• New York, NY: Adoption seminars & support groups (ongoing)
• Columbus, OH: North American Council on Adoptable Children 35th Annual Conference, Aug 12-15/09
Support Groups
• Toronto: Adoption Support Kinship (about reunion), July 8/09 (postponed from the 1st Weds of each month)
