Sharon Kaplan Roszia

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Deborah N. Silverstein Resume
Sharon Kaplan Roszia

BUSINESS:KINSHIP CENTER
1520 Brookhollow Dr,
Suite 41
Santa Ana, California 92660
(714) 949-2365
Email: silveroze@asyst.net

PRESENT:

Program Manager, Kinship Center,
a licensed California adoption and foster care agency, adoption consultant, author, lecturer.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

1983 - 1993 Director and founding partner of Parenting Resources

1974 - 1983 Social Worker with Children's Home Society of Southern California specializing in the placement of special needs children

1964 - 1966 Child Welfare Department of Maricopa County, Arizona

1963 - 1964 Juvenile Court Investigators Office Phoenix, Arizona

1962 - 1963 Probation Department, Phoenix, Arizona

EDUCATION:

B.S.W. and M.S. Arizona State University

AWARDS:

1988 Marion Segal "Humanitarian Award" from People Searching News

1987 "Child Advocate of the Year" Award presented by Child Abuse Council of Orange County

1977 Fellow of North American Center for Adoption

1963 Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society for Sociologists

1961 Alpha Gamma Delta National Women's Scholastic Society

A SAMPLING OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION INCLUDES:

Board of Post-Adoption Center for Education and Research, Chairperson for Southern California Adoption Agency Association, Education Committee for local
Planned Parenthood of Southern California, Program Director for California Adoption Agency Association, Board of local Foster Parent Association, Orange
County Foster Parent Training and Recruitment Advisory Committee for Board of Supervisors, Board Member of Triadoption Library, Co-President of Open
Door Society of Orange County, PTA president, Religious school principal

PUBLICATIONS:

1993 The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families from Making the Decision Through the Child's Growing Years
Co-authored with Lois Ruskai Melina, Published by Harper Collins

1988 "Lifelong Issues in Adoption", a chapter in Working With Older Adoptees: A Sourcebook of Innovative Models , University of Southern Maine Publication
Kaplan and Silverstein

1985 Cooperative Adoption: The Official Handbook , Triadoption Publications
Kaplan and Rillera

PRESENTATIONS:

Sharon has presented at conferences and workshops in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and over thirty states in the United States on a multitude of
adoption-related issues.
References will be provided upon request

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