Sudatta in Sanskrit means Good (Su) Adoption (datta). It is the attempt of Sudatta to make every adoption a pleasurable experience.

Sudatta’s main focus is the family unit built around the adopted child. Adoptive families realize the need for being together to make possible sharing of experiences and discussion on challenges within a group that can understand and be of mutual help.

The following are the benefits the members of Sudatta enjoy, which are also the aims and objectives of the support group:

• Continuous inputs on parenting from various experts (to be better parents)
• Access to child behaviour specialists (to understand children better)
• Access to child psychologists (to understand telling, search & other subjects)
• Workshops for parents on all aspects of adoption (to understand adoption better)
• Workshops for children on creativity (to bring out the most out of children)
• Formal & informal interaction between adoptive families (to mutually help each other)
• Interaction between adopted children (to ensure that the child does not feel it is alone)
• Family meets and picnics (to also have some fun and feeling of togetherness)
• Monthly newsletters (to share thoughts and be updated on the latest happenings)
• Access to a library on adoption in the future (to satisfy the information hunger)
• Advocate rights of adopted children and parents, and liase with the concerned authorities on related issues (to take up issue which individually it is impossible)
• Interact with schools of Social Work (to confer and disseminate information)

In addition, Sudatta holds awareness campaigns for the following adoption stakeholders:

• Aspirant adoptive parents (helping couples to plan their family well and in time)
• Social workers (enriching the most important parent-preparation process)
• Doctors (enabling proposal to adopt early instead of encashing on hope)
• Attorneys (possibility of providing user-friendly decrees instead of detailed judgement)
• Teachers (extra care while preparing the adopted child for the future)
• Society in general with the support of CARA (Central Adoption Resource Agency), VCA (Voluntary Coordinating Agency), Child Welfare organizations, Governments, etc.

Adoption is a wonderful option of expanding the family, any family not only the childless. Heredity determines the physical characteristics of the child while personality characteristics are a result of nurturing. Support groups such as Su-datta have been a major component in the nurturing process.

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