Welcome!

We are an international network of families who have adopted, are waiting to adopt, or are considering adopting a child from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Formerly the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, we have expanded throughout Northern California. We are an all-volunteer nonprofit public benefit corporation with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the IRS. We have many regional groups in Northern California, throughout the greater Bay Area, Sacramento/Sierra/Foothills, Chico/North Sacramento Valley, Fresno, and the Central Coast. Please feel free to contact us at boardfccncalif@yahoo.com, or join our organization by filling out our subscription form.

Contacts Find a regional coordinator for your area, a local playgroup, and more
Events Find out about our Events 
Feature Articles Read our feature articles
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Links See a list of related links 
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Our Mission Statement
Families with Children from China, Northern California Chapter provides a network of support for adoptive families and waiting parents to:

• Build community for parents and children
• Share information
• Celebrate our families
• Honor our children's Chinese and Chinese American heritage 
• Connect parents with community resources
• Develop social and cultural programs
• Sponsor language and culture classes
• Promote adoption education 
• Recognize and resist racism
• Provide financial support to FCC-Northern California Board-approved orphanage assistance projects in China, and 
  to promote a spirit of philanthropy among FCC members for the benefit of orphans and orphanages in China. 
  

What We Do
FCC Northern California provides local and regional networks of support for families who have adopted from China, and is a source of information for prospective adoptive parents. Membership fees are tax deductible. 

We sponsor many events throughout the year, including playgroups, get-togethers, and holiday celebrations for children and families, Chinese culture and language groups, parents' nights out for informal or panel discussions of many issues, forums for waiting and prospective parents to meet and ask questions, and a growing list of other activities-all organized by parent volunteers. Our network of families can provide links to information about local services and resources. We strongly encourage families to connect with their local Chinese American communities and the greater adoption community. We actively support and cosponsor events with community organizations, focusing on adoption, cultural, and educational opportunities. Selected FCC-Northern California events and activities raise donations for charitable organizations with a demonstrated track record of assisting children in Chinese orphanages.

Browse our website which provides listings of upcoming events and playgroups, information on events in the larger Bay Area - Northern California community, links to cultural resources, selected articles from our newsletter, and regional FCC contacts, including playgroups, as well as parent support groups.

Who May Join
FCC welcomes all families who have adopted or plan to adopt children of Chinese heritage, whether from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or the United States. Many of our families have children from other Asian countries, and have biological kids as well. We also warmly welcome prospective and waiting parents, adult adoptees, friends of adoptive families, adoption agencies, and other educational and business groups that support FCC's mission.

What You Get When You Subscribe
Please join our chapter. Your subscription is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Each year you will receive issues of the newsletter containing a wealth of articles and resources on adoption and transracial family issues, health topics, resources available to our families, media and education issues, and much more. We also send mailings about upcoming events, and a directory families may use to contact one another. 

Subscribe to our Email Postcard List
Please join FCC and subscribe to our main e-mail "postcard" list, which provides up-to-date information on FCC events, community activities and resources. To subscribe, send a blank email to: fcc-ncalif-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.  Once subscribed, members can choose to receive the messages (0-3/day), receive the daily digest form (that batches together each day's mail), or simply read current and archived messages on the web at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcc-ncalif.  

updated 12 June, 2008