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Joe Soll, L.C.S.W.,
D.A.P.A., the author
of
the original “Adoption Healing... A Path to Recovery” for
adoptees is a diplomate psychotherapist
and lecturer internationally
recognized as an expert in adoption related issues and a former adjunct
professor of social work at Fordham University Graduate School.
He is director and co-founder of Adoption Crossroads in New York City,
a non-profit  organization
that helps reunite and gives support to
adoptees, original parents and those who have adopted.
Adoption Crossroads is affiliated with more than 450 mental
health institutions and adoption search and support groups in eight
countries, representing more than 500,000 individuals whose lives have
been affected by adoption. Adoption Crossroads is also dedicated
to educating the public about adoption issues, preserving families and
reforming current adoption practices.
The director and founder of the Adoption Counseling
Center in New York City, Mr. Soll is also co-organizer and
co-chair of the New York State Adoption Agency Task Force; a member of
Matilda Cuomo's 1993 Advisory Council on the “Adoption Option”;
conference chair and board member of the American Adoption Congress and
a
trustee of the
International Soundex Reunion Registry. He's a fellow of the American
Orthopsychiatric
Association, the American Association of Grief Counselors, and a member
of the Council on Social Work Education, the National Association of
Social
Workers and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
.
Since 1989, Mr. Soll has organized and
coordinated eight international mental health conferences on adoption
attended by
mental health professionals. He has been an expert witness in
court about adoption related issues and has lectured widely at adoption
agencies, social work schools, mental health facilities and mental
health conferences in the U.S. and Canada.
Mr. Soll has appeared on radio and
television more
than 300 times, given more than 130 lectures on adoption related issues
and has been featured or quoted in more than three dozen newspapers,
books and magazines. In 1994 he was portrayed as a therapist in
the NBC made-for-TV movie about adoption, The Other Mother. He
recently played himself in the HBO original movie Reno Finds Her
Mom. He was featured in the 2001 Telly Award winning Global
Japan documentary, “Adoption Therapist: Joe Soll”
His own story as an adoptee has been
presented
more than thirty times on Unsolved Mysteries. He has walked the
250 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C. six times to create
public awareness of the need for adoption reform. He resides in
Congers, NY and maintains an office in New York City.
Joe has recently co-authored a mystery, "Evil
Exchange" with Lori Paris
Email: joesoll@adoptionhealing.com
Karen Wilson Buterbaugh is one of seven
exiled mothers
whose
personal experience of surrender during the “baby scoop era” of the
1960s was audio taped for Everlasting,” a multimedia sound and
video installation by artist Ann Fessler. The stories collected
for this exhibition, which showcased the voices of mothers of
loss from the1950s and 1960's, will become part of the women's
oral history collection at
Harvard University's Schlesinger Library.
In 1966, Karen was first interred in
two
"wage homes" with strangers, ironically without wages, before being
deposited as an “inmate” at the Florence Crittenton maternity facility
in Washington D.C. She completed her senior year at the facility
before giving birth to her daughter, Michelle Renee, at George
Washington Hospital, Washington, D.C., in July 1966. Both were
returned to the maternity facility and then separated on August 1,
1966, after she and her baby had spent ten days together in the
facility’s post-partum wing.
Thirty years later, she hired an investigative
agency to locate her daughter, now named Maria. Contact was made by
phone through a friend in January 1997. Their in person reunion took
place in February 1998.
Karen has been writing about adoption since 1997 and
is the author of two articles, “Setting the Record Straight,” published
by Moxie Magazine (April 2001), and “Not By Choice,” published by
Eclectica Magazine (January 2002).*
Her personal story of adoption surrender, "Relative
Strangers: A Mother's Experience of Adoption Loss"
is scheduled for publication in 2004.
Karen is a co-founder of OriginsUSA ,a founding member of Mothers Exploited By Adoption
and a co-founder of Mothers for Open
Records Everywhere
Karen is married and lives in Virginia.
She has three grown daughters. Her oldest, Michelle Renee, was the
baby she lost to adoption.
*To request a copy, email:
karenwb@erols.com
or write to:
OriginsUSA
2711 Buford Road, #199
Richmond, VA 23235
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