Journeys of Discovery, an Adoption Network Cleveland Conference

Friday, March 21 & Saturday, March 22, 2025

Journeys of Discovery, an Adoption Network Cleveland Conference, will be held on Friday, March 21st, and Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, on the campus of Baldwin Wallace University in Berea Ohio, which is 15 miles south of Cleveland and conveniently located to freeways, hotels, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

About the Conference: To mark the 10th anniversary of Ohio’s Opening Day – a day 400,000 Ohio adoptees, by law, gained access to their original birth records – Adoption Network Cleveland is hosting a conference to continue the celebration and education. Together, adoptees; birth parents; adoptive, kinship and foster parents; foster alumni; individuals who are donor conceived or have found misattributed parentage through DNA testing; and professionals in the field, and others, will explore unfolding life stories, engage in learning, and create community.

Click here to view and respond to our Call for Proposals. Proposals are due by Friday, November 4th. Conference registration will open in early January 2025.

Keynote: Abby Hasberry, LMFTA

Adopting Privilege: What is it? Who has it? And how is access to information and informed consent attempting to shift it?
Emcee: Lauren LoGiudice

Comedian, Actor and Filmmaker