Mini Class: Preparing your Children for the Playground

As parents, protecting our children is gut instinct. Of course we want them to have friends, play and have fun. How do we help prepare them for questions and comments about adoption when we are not around?

Come to our Mini Class and find the answers

Thursday February 9th

6:30 p.m.

LDS Family Services

West Valley Agency

Conference Room

Delicious refreshments will be served.

See you there


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Annual Adoption Walk

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Infertility Fall Event

Utah Infertility Awareness is hosting a Fall Event on Tuesday, October 25th from 6:30-8 PM at the Draper Library. Speakers will include Lindsey & Josh Redfern (The R House), Tiffany & Jonathan Alleman (Mrs. Utah), and Andrea & John Timothy (Utah Infertility Awareness Committee). Please visit their website for more information. The event is free, but registration is required.



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Annual Boondock's Day

Join us for the Annual Adoption Celebration at Boondock's on Saturday, November 5th! Pre-registration is required this year, so please make sure to visit the Registration Page before October 24th if you plan on attending.

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Taxes & Adoption

Questions about how the Adoption Tax Credit works, how to use it and what to do?

Come join us for our FSA Mini-Class

Thursday October 20th, 2011

6:30 p.m.

West Valley Agency Board Room

David Crandall, will be advising the discussion. He is CPA, licensed in California and Utah. Currently he is a tax partner with a local firm.

IRS CIRCULAR 230 DISCLAIMER: This communication, including any attachments, is not intended and cannot be used by a taxpayer for either avoiding tax penalties or promoting, marketing or recommending any transaction.

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Finding Friday- Update Preference Checklist

Revisit your preference checklist and see if any of your answers might have changed since you first filled it out.

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PICNIC TODAY: New Details

We hope you will be able to join us today at the FSA Picnic. We look forward to visiting with you.

FYI - I drove by there this morning and they are repaving 3500 South.

It might be easiest to drive heading west on 3500 South so you can make a right turn into the park. It is on the north side of the street.

It is the park right next to the West Valley Animal Shelter. You can also enter the park on 4100 West again the name of the park is "City Park".

We will try to have the yellow balloons out to help guide the way.
We will be in a pavilion next to the play land west of the baseball diamond.

If you have any questions or get lost call Kim's Cell phone.

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West Valley FSA Picnic

Just when you were thinking all your summer fun was over, we are having our annual picnic Saturday, here are the details. We can't wait to see you there.

Annual West Valley FSA Picnic

When: Saturday September 10 2011 2:00 p.m.

Where: City Park

4500 West 3500 South West Valley City

watch for yellow balloons

Please bring your favorite salad, or desert.

Luau Theme: We are having Hawaiian Haystacks

There is a playground there for the kids.

We will also have:

Luau Games

See you there!!

"Rooted In Love"

The National FSA Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, August 12th and 13th at the Davis Conference Center. The line up of speakers and classes is phenomenal this year and include keynote addresses from Julie B Beck and Karyn Purvis. Classes include:

What Adoptive Children need from their birth parents

How to plan a post-placement life

Step by Step: Pregnancy to Placement

Openness in Adoption, Nurturing Marriage

Adoption Law, Infertility, Life Books,

Attuning to your child, Grief and Healing

Foster to Adopt, Infant bonding, Why FSA?

and many more!!!

The conference is open to anyone touched by adoption or interested in learning more. Please join us there!
For more information, visit the Nat'l FSA Blog.

To register for the National FSA Conference 2011 "Rooted in Love", please click here.

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Life Book Mini Class

Creating a Life Book for your adopted children, is putting their story in their hands. Its using words and photos, in creating a book that will help answer the who, what, why, where and how questions that will come up about their adoption experience.

Our chapter is doing a mini class on Thursday about Life Books, come and join us. If you have done a life book for your children please bring it to share.

May 19th

6:30 pm

West Valley Agency

Questions? Please email us at westvalleyfsa@gmail.com

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2nd Annual Utah Infertility Awareness Event

This is a community sponsored event for anyone affected by infertility. Attendance is free, but you will need to register because of limited seating. For more information about this event or to register for it, please visit Utah Infertility Awareness.


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New RESOLVE Chapter in Salt Lake

The National Infertility Association RESOLVE has opened a new chapter in Salt Lake City. This will be a peer-led infertility support group with open membership. For more information about the support group, click here.

To visit the RESOLVE website, click here.

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