Adoption
Connection Heals Foster Kids Faster Than Correction Ever Will (with Amie Huggins)
Foster parent and junior high teacher Amie Huggins wrote two rules on her Utah foster application. No adoptions. No long-term placements. Sixteen years later, she is the adoptive mother of four daught
Connection Heals Foster Kids Faster Than Correction Ever Will (with Amie Huggins)
Foster parent and junior high teacher Amie Huggins wrote two rules on her Utah foster application. No adoptions. No long-term placements. Sixteen years later, she is the adoptive mother of four daught
Ben and LaCol Kjar Share Their Adoption Journey to Three Kids
Voices of Adoption brings listeners into real conversations with birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive families. Host Donna Pope, Executive Director of Heart to Heart Adoptions, has spent her career w
Standout: The Kjars on Their Adoption Journey to Three Kids
Ben and LaCol Kjar share their adoption journey to three kids, the movie Standout, and the name written down twice. Ten years of trying. Four rounds of IVF. Two adoption matches that fell apart. Then
Standout: The Kjars on Their Adoption Journey to Three Kids
Ben and LaCol Kjar share their adoption journey to three kids, the movie Standout, and the name written down twice. Ten years of trying. Four rounds of IVF. Two adoption matches that fell apart. Then
What Foster Care and Adoption Really Ask of Us
Two child welfare insiders pull back the curtain on foster care and adoption. In this episode of Voices of Adoption, host Donna Pope sits down with George Goodlow and Beth Hyerman, hosts of Laughing
What Foster Care and Adoption Really Ask of Us
Two child welfare insiders pull back the curtain on foster care and adoption. In this episode of Voices of Adoption, host Donna Pope sits down with George Goodlow and Beth Hyerman, hosts of Laughing
Foster Care Begins With Bringing Kids Home
George Goodlow and Beth Hyerman have spent years inside child welfare, in casework, foster care, licensing, and adoption. In this episode of Voices of Adoption with host Donna Pope, Beth and George sh
Finding Family After Foster Care and Adoption
He called 22 people, mom or dad, before he learned what family really means. Michael Sheaffer moved through eight foster homes by age six, lost his name and his siblings to adoption, and rebuilt his l
Building the Support Foster and Adoptive Families Deserve
Eight Foster Homes Before Age Seven. Michael Sheaffer was born in Pennsylvania in the early 1980s, into a home shaped by poverty and addiction. He and his older brother often took food from a corner s
Finding Family After Foster Care and Adoption
He called 22 people, mom or dad, before he learned what family really means. Michael Sheaffer moved through eight foster homes by age six, lost his name and his siblings to adoption, and rebuilt his l
What to Do When Your Adopted Child's Behavior Changes
For the first few months after a placement, everything can look calm. The child settles in, school goes fine, and the whole family finally exhales. Then, sometimes with no warning at all, the behavior