videos about adoption
Love Wins
From poverty, to an orphanage, to a fulfilling adoptive family, Christopher Ategeka talks about his transformation after he brings back to the orphanage, a Visa to America. He explains, in his humorous and honest way, what it was like to come to America, a country so different from where he came from in Uganda. He goes on to talk about how strangers took him in and showed him how much they cared about him. Learning a new language, learning how to use American appliances, and adapting to his new life was not easy for Christopher or his new family, but he looks at the beautifully human side of adoption. His story is endearing and real, and he talks about how this opportunity to come to America changed his life for the better. He challenges us all to help a young child experience multi-culturism.
There is hope
My dream has always been to advocate for and adopt older foster children and to improve the foster and adoptive care system. I wanted every child waiting to be reunited with their family or waiting to be adopted by their forever family, that someone cared about their past, their present and their future dreams. My husband and I have adopted seven of our thirteen children from the foster care system and would have adopted more, if it had worked out to do so. In this video, CCSI invites Rachel Crow, an adoptee, to speak as she is fighting for adopted children and children waiting in the foster care system. She believes that all children in foster care have the potential to be extraordinary and do extraordinary things and that there are no limits. Are you willing to fight with her? She challenges us to recognize the need because “People don’t make the change when it doesn’t affect them.” I agree. That is why I wrote my book, PHOENIX BOUND, so that my story would inspire others to see the need and to make a change.
Are You Kidding Me?
This video explains the need for foster and adoptive families. It does not address the struggles that these families have, but the numbers are staggering. These statistics will blow you away. Of course, numbers and statistics change all the time but one fact remains, and that is changes need to take place for our children to grow up knowing that they are loved dearly. It’s a short video but well worth your time and attention. Graphs, numbers and percentages speak a thousand words.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANGIE K
Why did we choose to adopt? When did we make such a weighted decision? Why did I write a book? How can my book help you? This video will answer all of these questions and more. Enjoy and share.
It’s Time To Take RAD Seriously
It’s time to take Reactive Attachment Disorder (now called DTD, Developmental Trauma Disorder) seriously. RAD disrupts families and destroys relationships in the adoption world all to often. Professionals do not recognize the manipulation and often sides with the child. If everyone around us would act as a team it would ultimately help the child. We need a trauma-informed village to raise these children. We must not give up on them, like they’ve given up on themselves.
SAVE OUR ADOPTIVE PARENTS
It is all too common for Adoptive Parents to find themselves alone, frustrated, confused and angry. Finding professionals with the education and understanding of typical adoptive issues can be a great challenge. This video addresses that need and so much more.
Just a Glimpse
‘Just a Glimpse’ gives viewers a glimpse of the life of a traumatized child.
Ten Tips on Parenting the Adopted Child
Sometimes as adoptive parents, we get preoccupied by our child’s behaviors rather than the root of the behavior. These ten tips for parenting the adopted child can help.
Feeling Lost and Alone
Adoptive parents begin their journey with the same hopes and dreams any other parent has, but often times, the child’s trauma is something beyond what they had been prepared for.
A Life of Sacrifice
I meet so many people that express a desire to adopt or wish they had. On the other hand, I meet so many people that are quick to judge an adoptive family. Keep in mind, it’s easy to look from the outside, in, and judge someone else’s competence…until you walk a mile in their shoes.
Reactive Attachment Disorder: You need to know that most adoptive parents are dealing with this.
This video is a dynamic, real look at RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder). I wish that the church we went to had bothered themselves to listen to us, care about us, and attempt to understand our situation. We were struggling and begging for help from them. We got no help; only condemnation, persecution and judgement. This is not what Jesus is all about.
Education is Power. Understanding RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) should not dissuade you from adoption, but rather, ensure a successful adoption, one grounded in understanding the child and his/her trauma. My daughter expressed her interest in my work by saying, “I want people to understand us.” This video is well worth your time, especially if it saves an adoption, which in turn, saves a child. He obviously listened to parents and sought to understand them fully. I admire him for taking on such a tough, touchy subject.
Understanding Adoptive Parents
What if I told you that one woman’s words destroyed my family? As an outsider, perhaps a friend, a neighbor, or a church member, you have the power to undermine the relationship between a fragile, bonding-impaired adopted child and their adoptive parents. Wouldn’t you want to help, rather than destroy?
Like anyone, adoptive parents want to be understood. We want a listening ear of someone who truly seeks to understand and sympathize. This video helps others perceive us differently, based on new, enlightened information. We so often feel judged, criticized and condemned by others around us. Watch this video and see how you can seek understanding, truth, and compassion.
Then Why…?
Then Why…? addresses common struggles adoptive parents have that can be easily remedied with an understanding and compassion for the adoptive family dynamic. It looks at ways we wouldn’t dream of meddling into someone else’s life, but ways that an adoption can quickly be compromised if someone pushes their views onto our child and their already insecure life.
One Word Reviews for PHOENIX BOUND
Always looking for a well-written book to read? Struggle finding the reviews that point to that book? Here are some reviews that will encourage you to pick up PHOENIX BOUND: An Adoptive Mom of 13 Shares Her Struggle Raising Traumatized Children. It’s a book for everyone, regardless of your desire or ability to adopt. For the past twenty some years of raising adoptive children, friends, families, neighbors and strangers would stop us to ask us questions, sometimes very personal questions. You can now find all of the answers and more in this detailed book. Ever want to be a fly on the wall? Here’s your chance.
Change is Needed
Seeing through the eyes of an adoptive parent, it often looks differently than that of the outsiders viewpoint. Living in a situation where the child may be struggling with a great deal of trauma can be more difficult than anyone can imagine. It’s easy to be on the outskirts, judging those who are in the pit; but isn’t it time we stop judging and seek to understand the struggles, thereby seeking solutions to the struggles? I think we all agree on end goal – to raise happy, healthy children.
Everyone Wants to be Understood
It’s so easy to point the finger at others, but few truly seek to understand someone else’s circumstances. Adoption, and all those involved struggle in ways that are often hidden from the public – because they are in the heart, not on display for others to see. As beautiful that adoption is, it can bring unexpected trials, and when adoptive parents are prepared for these struggles and understand them, themselves, they will be more able and ready to handle them as they come.