Jane Brown Archive
The following are a number of articles by or about Jane and what she does.
- Maintaining Family Support Groups
- Mixed Blessings
- How to Talk to Young Children About Adoption
- Jane Brown Responds to FCCBC Executive Questions
- Jane Brown -- Second Response to Executive
- Amy Klatzkin on Jane Brown
- A homeland visit with a young child
- Should adoptive parents of internationally-adopted children search and open adoptions?
- Raising a single child after adopting
- Culture camps and more...
- Preparing children for parent death
Jane Brown is both an adoption social worker/educator and an adoptive & foster mother of nine children, some of whom are now grown. She lives and works in Arizona. She serves on the editorial board of Adoptive Families Magazine and writes a regular parenting column for the publication. She is the creator of Adoptive Playshops which is a series of workshops for adopted children age five+, their non-adopted siblings, and adoptive parents in which children are helped through playful, multisensory activities to explore growing up in an adoptive family and racial identity, plus develop skills for dealing with societal attitudes and beliefs about adoption and includes helping children resist and confront racism and bullying. She can be reached at: janebrown77@earthlink.net or at: (602) 690-5338.