Get A Grip on Your Foster or Adoptive Child’s Early Trauma
As a foster or adoptive parent, you have both the responsibility and the privilege to help your child identify, navigate, and heal from trauma. To do that, you’ll need to roll up your sleeves and do some heavy lifting, including becoming a serious student of trauma....
9 Ways to Discipline Foster and Adopted Children
If you’re a foster parent or you’ve adopted a child, you’re tuned in to the challenge of managing difficult behaviors. So many children in the foster care system have endured tragic abuse, neglect, and trauma. The result? They often express their feelings through...
We Are “Plan C”: An Adoptive Parent’s Personal Account
This personal account was written and shared by adoptive parent Andy Meyers, Agape Adoption Agency’s Intake & Outreach Specialist. When you first enter the foster or adoption world as an adoptive parent there is sometimes this (especially among the...
Am I The Black Life That Matters?
This story was submitted by a friend of Agape Adoption Agency. A precious child considers the recent national events and questions, “Am I the black life that matters?” My daughter has had a fascination with officers since she could express herself. I’ve...
Foster Care and the Coronavirus Crisis
If the Coronavirus has taught us anything it’s that deep down, we are social creatures who thrive best in the company of others with whom we feel safe. Foster kids, many of whom have known nothing in their lives except uncertainty, turmoil, and change have been hit...Gallery
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