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News Welcome to the website for our chapter. We are Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption - New York City (FRUA-NYC). Please bookmark this site and check back frequently as we build our site and add activities to serve our membership. |
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Members List:
Links Section
President:
Carol Becker
Vice-President:
Betsy Scherl
Web Mistress:
Betsy Scherl
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WELCOME
Welcome to the New York City Chapter of Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA - New York City). We are one of many chapters of National FRUA that are located throughout the country and one of two chapters in the State of New York. We started in January 2004 and our goal is to serve our member families throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area. We continue to hold acitivities to appeal to families in New York City area. Our goal is to not only support families who are in the process of considering adopting from Russia and other eastern European countries, but to also provide support and fellowship to those who have already adopted. We announce our meetings via e-mail and on our website. Please e-mail us to be included on our e-mail announcement list. We look forward to meeting you as we celebrate our children and their heritage.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
We will continue to update the list listed below and will list as much detail as possible. We send out chapter announcement via e-mail only! If you are interested in being placed on the e-mail list, please contact bscherl@aol.
CALENDAR FOR 2007-2008!
September 2007; Fall Get-Together
January/February 2008 New Year's Party
We encourage all of you who are FRUA-NYC members to start to help with planning new events for our membership. The two of us (Carol and Betsy) have been active members of FRUA for the past seven years! It has been a great joy, but it is now time for us to cut back on our planning activities for a few reasons: first, the ability of a group (such as FRUA-NYC) to sustain itself and to continue to grow, is dependent on the input of a variety of volunteers. It simply can not continue for the long term with the majorit of the planning being done by the two of us. Second, we both have children of a similar age (6 to 11 years of age) and we would like to welcome members with other ages of children to become planners of activities. Third, we are "creating a void" so that someone else hopefully can and will step in. Finally, we are tiring a bit and would welcome fresh ideas .. .and the execution of those ideas!
The good news is that we are not leaving .. . we are hear to provide you with e-mail blasts to the membership and posting on our website . . .So, please feel free to "step up to the plate" and plan some activities! If you are willing to help with the planning, please contact either Carol (carolb201@aol.com) or Betsy bscherl@aol.com.
Internationally adopted children have a unique experience with language. They begin life learning one language and are then immersed in another. Although they are older, adopted children must learn their new language by listening to their parents, in a way that is similar to infant learners.
At the Laboratory of Developmental Studies at Harvard University, we want to find out more about the process of language development in internationally adopted preschoolers. In what ways is it like infant language learning and in what ways is it different? We hope that this research will help us understand language development in general and the unique challenges of internationally adopted children.
We are looking for families who have adopted a child within the last 14 months or plan to adopt soon and who might be interested in participating. If your child was or will be adopted between the ages of 2.5 and 5.5 from Eastern Europe or China, your participation would be extremely helpful. If you are interested in learning more about the study please go to our website (www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/adoption) or send an e-mail to langdev@wjh.harvard.edu including your child's current age, age at the time of adoption, and country of birth.
CHAPTER INFORMATION
For Sale:
Anna, I Speak Russian - Doll
(About Anna)
Thanks to these ingenious dolls called Language Littles, our children will be able to learn to speak some Russian! Each Language Little doll will recite a series of "kid friendly" phrases that include the following: greetings, days of the week, family members, favorite hobbies and school subjects. All dolls offer direct translation from English to their native language.
Price: $40.00, includes shipping and handling.
Contact: Carol Becker, phone: (212) 371-0118
Language Littles "Anna Doll"
