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adoption
‘Adoption is a complex gift and society needs to encapsulate the fullness of this treasure albeit through adversity'
Joy Carter
‘Adoption is a complex gift
My adoption advocacy work started in 2006 by chance when I shared my adoption story on Sky News and my story went viral. I have witnessed, campaigned for and worked with many leading adoption and fostering organisations to aid legislation and help create a better understanding and involvement of the adoptee voice. However much more needs to be done to ensure the generations to come fully understand and engage with adoption in it's fullness. My advocacy work will never end and I am driven quite simply by love. In 2014 I set up 'AdoptionArena.com' and in 2020 I founded the Adoption Arena Podcast that saw our project recognised in Good Housekeeping magazine, Best and Chat during lockdown when the podcast was birthed.
The future is ours to imagine and create. Read latest National Adoption Week Adoption Arena blog post
You Can Adopt National Campaign 2023
TV, press and media.
'You can Adopt' National Campaign 2022
I wrote the event poem and featured in it
TV, Radio, Press, media
National Adult Services Conference 2019
with Social Work England
Westminster Celebration of Achievement at Tate Modern for Westminster Council attended by 200 children in care and the Lord Mayor of Westminster
Comics 4 Adoption at Embassy Nightclub, Mayfair. The first ever comedy show featuring comedians from the adoption and fostering field. Organised by Joy Carter for Adoption Arena in 2014
BBC World News 'Focus on Africa' discusision on the changes to the UK adoption field.
‘an outstanding public speaker who was able to bring a unique combination of warmth, wisdom, personal experience and edgy observational humour to the complex subject of transracial adoption'
‘an outstanding public speaker who was able to bring a unique combination of warmth, wisdom, personal experience and edgy observational humour to the complex subject of transracial adoption'
Joan Fletcher Head of Social Work, Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths University
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