Voices Unheard: Real Adoptee Stories
Join Us on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
Doors Open at 6:00 p.m.
The Rockwell, Somerville, MA
Celebrating our 5th Year
Buy online in advance for $15 + $0.75 processing fee
$20 at the door
We developed Voices Unheard because of our deep belief in the value of community and creative expression for adult adoptees.
On November 12, 2019, BPAR hosted our first public event, bringing the Greater Boston community together to listen to adult adoptees as they shared their lived experiences. During the pandemic, we were able to offer both in-person and live-streamed forums in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In 2024, we are proudly hosting our 5th forum, moving exclusively to an in-person format in a larger venue at the Rockwell in Somerville to better accommodate events that always sold out early in previous years!
Your donation supports BPAR's mission to
provide specialized trauma-informed individual and group therapeutic care and culturally sensitive support.
We connect people to post adoption resources and educate the public about the impacts of adoption.
Through our services, BPAR invites those touched by adoption to join our community
in an environment that encourages lifelong healing.
BPAR is a 501(c)(3)
Voices Unheard is a program of Boston Post Adoption Resources (BPAR).
As a key part of our mission we promote adoptee voices through
our self-reflective journal, workshops, and live events for storytellers.
Watch the Video! Voices Unheard: Real Adoptee Stories
November 28, 2023
On November 28, 2023, BPAR hosted our fourth live creative forum for adult adoptees in Cambridge.
We welcome you to watch the video recording from the livestream version below. You'll see that our adoptee speakers provided a night of powerful, honest storytelling through poetry, short stories, and more.
OUR VOICES UNHEARD JOURNAL IS AVAILABLE WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD!
Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
Written by BPAR clinician Lisa Coppola, LMHC
Cover artwork by Kelly DiBenedetto (BPAR's Executive Director) and Albie DiBenedetto
“This guided journal is long overdue. It offers an adoptee the opportunity to carefully examine their perspectives and feelings about their life and to clarify what is truth.”
—Sharon Kaplan Roszia, co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third-Party Reproduction