Our Mission
Adoption Network Cleveland connects and empowers individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption and foster care, providing a source of healing for those in need since 1988.
Important Message from our Board Chair
Upcoming Events
Reclaiming the Narrative: A 7-Step Approach to Trauma Healing and Adoptee Wholeness with Dr. Liz DeBetta
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET | Monday, January 13th
Being able to question, reject, and rewrite the dominant narratives that make adoptees the object rather than the subject of their stories is essential to finding healing and wholeness. Permission to explore origin (and other adoption) stories and rewrite them as teens and adults helps adoptees to become more integrated by allowing them to connect to the parts of themselves that have been denied by the stories that were given to them as children, and the stories that the media would like the public to believe about adoption. Using Howard Bath’s 3-pillars of Trauma-informed Care (2008) and the 7-step trauma-healing framework embedded in the Migrating Toward Wholeness© method of expressive writing to heal attendees will learn how the process of re-narrativizing for adoptees can be used to find clarity, understand the effects of trauma, promote personal growth that helps to shift internal narratives, and create healthy dialogue among families. Read more about Liz here.
Thank You Corporate Partners!
Together we build community and help create a brighter future.
See how Adoption Network Cleveland changes lives.
-
CFNA -
-
NRP Group -
-
Ockerman Consulting -
Westfield Bank -
Fit Learning -
-
Skylight Foundation -
OhioKAN Regional Partner
On the Blog
In November, Adoption Network Cleveland’s board welcomed five new board members: Denise Astorino, Tashyana Copeland, Cory Isler-Manzo, Nikki Lewis, and Andrew Mangels.
Adoption Network Cleveland needs YOU to become part of our public policy advocacy efforts! Let us know how you would like to contribute in the coming year by completing a quick survey so we can reach out on the issues you care about most!
Estes Turner has been a constant source of support, serving as a volunteer, donor, participant, and mentor since the early 1990s. Estes's commitment to helping others has been a gift, and we are honored to have had him participate in and help shape our community for so many years. Thank you, Estes!
