Family Preservation Fund

October 1, 2010 No comments yet

**This Family has started their own blog about their situation. You can follow the story here.** One of our families who adopted 2 foster boys last February, just found out that the appeals court overturned the biological mom’s termination. That means that unless there is a major intervention these two beautiful boys may be pulled [...]

7 Tips for Friends, Family, Teachers, Pastors & Neighbors of Couples Adopting Special Needs Children

March 18, 2009 3 comments

The first year or two after the placement of a child with an attachment issue is very difficult on the child and the family. I equate it to a trauma treated in an emergency room. It is not pretty and there are some extreme measure that need to be taken to stabilize the patient. Having gone through this myself a couple of times, I wish I had had something I could have given to the people around me to help them know how they could help (actually not working against me would have been fine too). I wrote this list so that adoptive parent can have something to hand to their support network. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments below.