Meeting Facilitators     Sacramento | Cameron Park First-Timers: Be sure to call or email prior to attending your first meeting so that the facilitator may welcome you, provide directions, and answer any questions you may have. Sacramento Adoptees Only Meeting Facilitator Kat Cox kittymade@hotmail.com (916) 204-5489 Sacramento Triad Meeting Facilitators Linda Orozco search98@winfirst.com (916) 359-6777 Linda Orozco, affectionately known as Mama O to the adoptees, is a birth mother to a son born 6/20/67 at Fairhaven Home for Unwed Mothers in Sacramento. She has two other sons named Robert and Chris. Linda first stepped out of the birthmother closet in 1998 and immediately started attending the PACER Sacramento Triad Support Group. Since then she has found her birthson (Dec 1998) and is patiently waiting for a response. In the meantime, she has become an active member of the Sunflower Birthmoms, CA Open Records, Bastard Nation, Sacramento Triad for Adoptee Rights, Concerned United Birthparents and American Adoption Congress. Additionally, Linda has been a volunteer for Women's Aglow Prison Ministry for 13 years. She is currently President Emeritus of the CA Association of Equal Rights Professionals www.caerp.org, a statewide civil rights organization. Linda volunteers as a mentor to Women's Empowerment Program, a program to assist homeless women get back on their feet, "Ending Homelessness, one Woman at a Time". She retired from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) as a Criminal Justice Specialist in 2004 and currently works part-time as a Retired Annuitant at OES. She also attends Bayside of South Sacramento (BOSS) Church at Sac City College. Diane Thompson dthompson@parks.ca.gov (916) 442-1812 Diane Thompson is a birth mother who relinquished her only child, a son, immediately after his birth in March of 1964 in Mercy Hospital in Sacramento. She began attending Sacramento PACER triad meetings in November, 2000, after stumbling upon a RegDay table staffed by members of the Sacramento Triad. She has not yet been emboldened to search for her son, choosing instead to focus on the search for the self lost to shame, blame, and unacknowledged loss. She works for the State Department of Parks and Recreation. Diane is an avid reader, loves to cook, travel and listen to jazz, and shares her home with a feline friend, Millie. Linda Franklin lindave2@sbcglobal.net (530) 902-1364 Cameron Park Triad Meeting Facilitators Rachel Smith rsheartsongs@comcast.net (530) 558-5336 Rachel Smith, is a birthmother who relinquished a daughter at birth in 1967, in Phoenix, AZ. She later married the birthfather and subsequently raised three children. Processing the loss of her daughter was done in small steps starting in the early '80s through reading other's adoption/loss/reunion experiences, sharing her experience with family and close friends, and writing poetry. She has been attending the Sacramento PACER Triad Support Group since 1999 and found her daughter through a Confidential Intermediary in 2000. Though she doesn't have direct contact with her daughter yet, she hasn't given up hope. She's a retired nurse, busy with remodeling her house, and volunteering on the Family Life Marriage Conference Team in Sacramento. She loves music, reading and traveling with her husband of 37 years. Beth Blee beth.b@att.net (530) 677-5658 Beth Blee is the daughter of an adoptee. She has an interest in genealogy. Thinking it impossible to find her father's birth family, yet hitting a genealogical road block on the maternal side of the family, she started searching for her father's birth family. Half-way into the search, she felt like a lone ranger and needed support. Through the internet, she learned about RegDay and attended it in Folsom in 2003. At RegDay she learned about PACER. After a four year search she recently located her father's birth family. She attests to the fact that the repercussions of adoption affect not only adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents, but their descendants as well. She enjoys reading, journaling, crafting and traveling. | PACER In Sacramento | www.adopteerights.org |