The Gladney New York Tri-State Area Family Association is pleased to invite your family to become a member for 2005-06! The new enrollment year starts September 1, 2005, and offers many new features accessible only to Gladney Family Association member families; such as:

Monthly Chat Rooms on a variety of topics

Monthly on-line Book Clubs

Message boards where you can post questions/issues/concerns and receive input and feedback from other Gladney families around the United States

The New York Association website, where pertinent information for its members is posted (including a calendar of events)

Free admission to Coffee Klatch’s for Waiting Moms (for domestic and international programs); this is a great way to meet other moms and get support

Free admission to Glad Dads’ Football parties (for pre and post adoption Dads to hang out and watch the Jets and Giants kick butt!)

Pre-Sale discounts on fundraising offerings like the Gladney Association Calendar and Tote Bag

Welcome Home presents for when you arrive home with your new Little or not-so-Little Star!

Invitations to potluck dinners located throughout the area

Free admission to educational seminars for pre and post adoptive families

Automatic membership for pre-adoptive families in our successful mentor program

Membership for pre-adoptive families in Stork-S.W.A.T. (receive a free visit from a local Gladney family when you first get home with your Little Star with a meal, diapers, or a helping hand for an afternoon)

Free copies of the quarterly newsletter devoted to happenings in the Association and at Gladney!

This in addition to special meetings, fun picnics, informative meetings, and other great events; not to mention the support and friendship of hundreds of Gladney families in the New York Tri-State area!

For information about this Association, please contact us at auxiliaries@gladney.org.