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By Chris Brown

National Adoption Awareness Month

Film and panel event aims to answer adoption questions, ease conversations

Nov 18, 2022 | 12:29 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – A local family with its own adoption story hopes to start conversations and bring awareness to adoption on Sunday.

“Adoption is meaningful to us because we are a family created through adoption, through adoption options,” explains organizer Desiree Klok. “And we just want to bring awareness to adoption, start getting positive language around adoption, get people comfortable having this conversation and bringing the topic up so that it’s something that they understand and have a perspective of it of what adoption can and should be.”

The event will start with a screening of I’ll See You Later. Klok says the award-winning, Alberta-made documentary tells the life-altering stories of adoption carried by families learning to love together.

The free film screening will begin at 2 p.m. at the Medicine Hat Public Library Theatre, followed by a discussion panel.

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Klok says director Bruce McAllister will be on the panel as well as local families.

“Myself and another local family just coming to answer any questions that might come up whether it’s what does adoption look like, what does birth parents look like, what does the process look like, what are relationships like. Anything is on the table, we just want people to feel safe and comfortable having that conversation.”

November is National Adoption Awareness Month.

For more information visit adoptionoptions.com or the film’s website illseeyoulater.com.

Klok asks people to RSVP to the film and panel.