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National Adoption Month 2022

November is National Adoption Month! Read more about the history of National Adoption Day through this article by the Dave Thomas...

Facilitated Openness Can Benefit Children Adopted From Care

Helping a foster or adopted child stay in contact with members of his or her birth family can be time-consuming and sometimes emotionally...

Changing Our Approach When Our Children Can’t Change

What have I learned about parenting a child with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) over the past 22 years? I have learned that it...

Attachment-Informed De-Escalation Techniques

Parenting children who have experienced trauma and who have had attachment interruptions drives families to embrace new, creative...

Responding to Stealing by Lowering Anxiety

When we are parenting children with a history of trauma or—even more commonly—those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), stealing...

Being Anti-Racist: A Critical Way to Support Children of Color in Foster Care and Adoption

Transracial parents, service providers, educators, and others must lean into their personal discomfort and learn to have conversations...

November is National Adoption Month

For over two decades, National Adoption Month has been promoted and celebrated every November in communities across the country. Many...

The Personal is Political: Racial Identity and Racial Justice in Transracial Adoption

Implementing racial and ethnic socialization with your transracially adopted children helps strengthen trust and attachment by showing...

Resources to Support Children’s Emotional Well-Being Amid Anti-Black Racism, Racial Violence a

Most Black children in the United States encounter racism in their daily lives. Ongoing individual and collective psychological or...

Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Loss and Grief While Navigating Coronavirus

For children who have experienced separations, loss and trauma, the impact of this pandemic may include any or all emotions that everyone...

Birthparents on Their Minds

Adolescents’ thoughts and questions may become more intense because identity formation is one of the main developmental tasks of...

Talking to Your Teen About Being Adopted

Teenagers sculpt their self-identity largely through studying their parents and siblings. In what ways am I like them? they ask...

TBRI Animate: Trust-Based Relational Intervention

The Karen Purvis Institute of Child Development has created a series of videos to inform and inspire professionals and parents working...

Playful Parenting Builds Better Brains: 10 Tools for Success

You know how it goes: one minute, the kids are calm and playful. The next minute, you’re thrown into a world of whining, complaining and...

Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency

by Allison Davis Maxon (learn more here) Adoption, foster and kinship care are important resources for addressing the needs of children...

Emotional Regulatory Healing

The world of adoption, attachment, and trauma-informed care can be very science and data-oriented. But science demands outcomes, time for...

The Lingering Effects of Childhood Trauma

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) are stressful or traumatic events, like abuse, neglect and trauma. They may also include family...

Parenting After Adoption – Child Welfare Information Gateway

Adoption is a lifelong process. Families often need additional support at various times after placement and after the adoption is legally...