AUSTRALIA - ICASN, Lynelle has Resigned from ICASN/ICA involvement

Lynelle Beveridge

May 23, 2010 at 8:35am

Well, the time has come for me to say goodbye to the intercountry adoption community. I've created and been involved with ICASN since late 1998 and I now have other challenges and areas that need my energy. It has been a rewarding journey and I've been blessed to personally know many wonderful adoptees, adoptive parents, local birth parents, Govt professionals and non-govt professionals, and others involved in intercountry adoption. Thank you all for your contribution to making ICASN such a success!

The ICASN State Reps will still continue on in their state roles and can now be your central points of contact. I will no longer be updating or maintaining the ICASN website and it will remain in place up until early 2011, unless someone wants to keep it going and pay for the Domain registration.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mary Waterhouse/Frost from NMIT in VIC who has kindly hosted the ICASN website free of charge and provided technical support all these years .. without that, ICASN would never have grown from it's original 30 adoptee members in Australia, to today's 500+ in Australia and around the world ... and that's not counting those who joined via Facebook ....

I wish you all well in your journeys and my one hope is that eventually the institution of intercountry adoption will come to embrace and empower the voices of birth families to be heard and have an impact on the policies and processes involved between sending and receiving countries - I see this as the last group who remain unheard & disempowered in the triad for ICA.

I have also resigned from my position on the Federal Government's NICAAG body and hope there will be many adoptees who apply for the position as it's important for our voice to be involved in all levels of Intercountry Adoption.

My email address will cease to exist by 30 June 2010. Both the Facebook & Yahoo groups will be moderated by the ICASN State Reps.

Many thanks
Regards
Lynelle Beveridge begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Founder/Director
Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network (ICASN)
http://www.facebook.com/l/1fd75;www.icasn.org/

Mb: +61 411 126 427 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +61 411 126 427 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
E: icasn@bigpond.net.au
P: PO Box 6550 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153

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Dear Lynelle,

With great regret we have read your resignation of ICASN and also your departure from the Intercountry Adoption activities now we arrive at a new dawn of the history for Adoptees. United Adoptees International has great respect what you have done in Australia to establish a framework for Adoptees and the intervention on political and societal level.

Australia, but also the Adoptee world internationally, will loose with you, an important player in the field of intercountry adoption for the interest of Adoptees in many fields. Your efforts and your contribution to the worldwide dialogue of intercountry adoption in the best interest of the (adult) adoptees will not be forgotten.

We want to thank you for your support and outstanding cooperation and hope that for those who will take over your responsibilities and task, which is hardly to do in our opinion, will cooperate on the same level and with the same diligence as you did with United Adoptees International.

On behalf of the Board & Management United Adoptees International I want to wish you and your family all the best and happiness.

Hilbrand W.S. Westra

Managing Director UAI