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Contact List:
Links Section
Chair:
Karen Holt
Vice Chair:
Susan Walters
Treasurer:
Katherine Klepinger
Secretary:
Michelle (Shelli) Giess
Central Ohio Contact:
Karen Holt
Yvonne Wirtz
Cincinnati SW Ohio Contact:
Dorrie DeGutis
Holly Yeatts
Cleveland - NE Ohio Contact:
Vickie Adamus
Felicia Demchuk
Dayton Contact:
Kathy Klepinger
Susan Walters
SE Ohio / Marietta Contact:
Mary Jane Lawson
NW Ohio / Toledo:
Vacant Vacant
All other areas:
Karen Holt
Including Neighboring Countries
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FRUA-Ohio is an Adoption Support Group
for Families who have adopted, are adopting or are considering an adoption from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other Former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. - Contact FRUA-OhioSee below for our FRUA-Ohio Resource Directory for members and to join FRUA-Ohio
Upcoming Events:
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The AAC will be meeting at the Highland Ave Park on May 17th at 5pm for a potluck. |
Saturday May 31st 10 - 2pm Columbus (Westerville) Complete Details |
Saturday, July 20th Central Ohio - Granville Complete Details |
Dayton, OH on Saturday May 17, 2008 Complete Details |
Email to confirm notary availability.
Like all our events everyone is welcome to attend~~
Pre-adoptive and Adoptive parents, those considering adoption, and professionals
Both FRUA-Ohio Members and those considering membership
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Azerbaijan Belarus Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Latvia Lithuania Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Kosovo Macedonia Montenegro Poland Romania - Closed Serbia Slovakia Slovenia |
It is the mission of FRUA-Ohio to support the whole life experience of Eastern European orphan children and to strengthen the families that are created through adoption.
All families and children are welcome at all our events.
~ Wherever they were born
~ However they joined your family
We welcome pre-adoptive families at events. We love to talk about our fabulous families!
Currently, we have family members with children born in the following countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Georgia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and USA.
Plus professional members and preadoptive family members.
For Individuals who are not yet FRUA-Ohio members, and for Adoption Professionals.
Considering adoption?
Considering joining FRUA-Ohio?
Interested in FRUA events, parent education, or other adoption and cultural events in Ohio?
Click to join FRUA-OhioAnnouncements Group
For Individuals who are dues paying Members of FRUA-Ohio
This group contains all the same valuable information as the Announcements group, Plus the ability to ask questions and share with other FRUA-Ohio members.
Click to join FRUA-Ohio Discussion Group
Become a FRUA-Ohio Member
On-line - or - Mail
Joining FRUA-Ohio
Membership in FRUA Ohio is $30 per family/year. This includes free or reduced admission to our social events, educational seminars, the valuable new 56 page FRUA-Ohio Resource Directory, and the National FRUA journal Family Focus ©. Moreover, it gives you immediate support and access to other families who have adopted from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and other children your adopted child can play, interact and grow up with who have been through the same experience.
Join FRUA-Ohio on-line - - (Complete the membership form and select Ohio dues of $30.)
See some of the past Family Focus articles - - More benefits of FRUA Membership
Sample Pages & Index
Homestudy/Dossier
preparation in Ohio
Medical - Pre
Adoption, Referral, Post Adoption Assessment in Ohio
Post Adoption
Paperwork in Ohio
Financial Resources and Misc.
Culture In Ohio
Educating your child in
Ohio
Medical/Behavioral/Emotional
Resources in Ohio
"The Ohio FRUA Resource Directory is very impressive! It is very thorough and up to date. I really like that you include resources for gifted children, to offset that notion that all adopted kids are troubled. I wish I had had access to something like this before I adopted." -- Dorrie DeGutis of Cincinnati
"The FRUA-Ohio Resource Directory is a great tool for families whether they are new to international adoption, or seasoned adoptive parents. There is much information squeezed into those pages, and families (and even social workers) will find it an essential resource." -- Lynn Wenstrup, LSW, Dayton
We go through what we go through
to help others go through
what we went through.
