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FCV Chapter Ideas for Activities and Publicity

How to advertise your local FCV Chapter

Activity suggestions for FCV Chapters

Advertise your local FCV Chapter

Lea Ann Kaplan, Washington State (Seattle) FCV Chapter, provided these excellent suggestions.

• I advertised about our group on the APV list, the FCV site, through Adoptive Families Magazine, sending info to all adoption agencies I could find in the phone book, plus the other big agencies in Vietnam like Holt, MAPS. 
• I made a webpage for our adoption group. (FCV Seattle webpage)
• I put pamphlets out at adoption fairs in November in our area. 
• I made business cards with our adoption support group name and my phone number and gave a dozen to every member to give out when they met people who had adopted from or were interested in adopting from Vietnam. 
• I found a group who helps Seattle's sister city in Vietnam and they put an article about the support group in their newsletter. 
• I am trying to list our group in the Joint Council on International Children's Services book.
• One member of our group has done an email newsletter for the support group. Families submitted things like favorite books about Vietnam, introductions, etc. and she put it together into one email and sent it to all of the members of the group.  I printed the email out to send to people who don't have email.  It has also been nice to have this to send to new members so they get to know us better.
• Another member has set up an email list just for the members of our support group.  This will help us set up play dates and let people know about interesting community events on shorter notice. 

Activity Suggestions for FCV Chapters

Vietnamese cultural information and detailed resources for activities are provided on the Adopt Vietnam website in the Vietnam Culture section: http://www.adoptvietnam.org/vietnamese/

Book, tapes and videotapes are reviewed in the Book section of Adopt Vietnam website: http://www.adoptvietnam.org/books/

Lea Ann Kaplan, Seattle WA FCV Chapter, provided these suggestions:

• Mid-Autumn Festival
• Language classes
• Meet at the Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Meet and eat at a Vietnamese restaurant
• Vietnamese cooking. (I taped a 20 minute tape of making pho from the Food Channel.  I would do the prep work then as a group we could do the finishing work for pho and eat it.)
• Speakers. (We are invited Betty Tisdale to one of our meetings to speak.  She helped Vietnamese orphans get airlifted out of Saigon in 1975 and she adopted 5 Vietnamese children.  She happens to live in Seattle. In addition, we asked as a speaker a social worker who teaches parenting and adoption classes.)
• Tai chi demonstration class.
• Volunteer projects to help Vietnamese Americans in our community.