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About the Training This webinar will provide an in-depth examination of attachment and bonding, including issues such as grief and loss and bonding within the transracial family. This training [...]

Join us for our spring meet and greet event! * Learn more about the Coalition and how we can support your adoption or foster care journey * Meet other adoptive and foster parents * Share ideas [...]

Some years ago, we spent an entire year focusing on the topic of trauma. So much has changed in the intervening years that we thought it was time to turn our attention back to trauma for this [...]

Today, more than ever before, foster and adoptive parents are learning, hearing, and dealing with the impacts of trauma on youth and young adults and how they can help those who have experienced [...]

There’s little doubt that good relationships between birth parents and foster parents benefit children in out-of-home care. Where there is positive co-parenting, there are better outcomes for [...]

We all need help sometimes, especially when struggles come up post adoption and we feel isolated. It may be just after the adoption, or 10 years later. Children who have come into our families [...]

One of the most important tasks of parenthood is helping children learn to deal with their emotions. All children experience periods of stress in their lives and need the emotional skills to deal [...]

Meeting the Needs of the Whole Family We chose to write about the impact of what it means to champion a child who has been touched by foster care and/or adoption because we know that sometimes [...]

Parenting has often been called the most difficult job you’ll ever love. And, as all parents know, the job comes with countless surprises, joys, and, yes, challenges. We often hear from [...]

Introducing the Journey Partner program from the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families “The Coalition reminds us that adoption is not the end of the story, but a second beginning. [...]