Tag: Complex Trauma in Foster Children

• Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (An Adoption Story)

  

  One family’s story about adopting a child from foster care.

  Adrienne Morris

  April 2, 2022

  Adoption, Adrienne Morris

  adopting from foster care, Adoption, adoption stories, advocating for foster children, Complex Trauma in Foster Children, Foster Care, overmedicated foster children

• Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 3)

  

  Looking back, it amazes me that the health care officials in charge of this place were so blasé about thrusting an obviously highly traumatized child into my car after a fifteen minute introduction playing Junior Monopoly. As a former fifth grade teacher I noticed that M had trouble counting steps around the board and had…

  Adrienne Morris

  March 30, 2022

  Adoption

  Adoption, Complex Trauma in Foster Children, Foster Care, Foster Parents, Mental Health, Parent to Parent, PTSD in children