Support for Your Family
We know firsthand the unique challenges of raising a child with trauma and attachment issues leading to behavioral and mental health struggles. Our mission is to help you navigate those obstacles, raise money, and get the funding, education, and support you need. Our organization believes that families helping families navigate the journey through trauma-related issues will provide a sense of community and understanding from our personal experiences on the complexities of adequate treatment solutions. Our ultimate goal is healing for the child as well as the entire family. If you are an adoptive family with a child in need, AFC offers numerous resources to help.
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These resources are offered as samples for your reference only and are not intended to represent the best or only resources available on these subjects. We make no guarantee with regard to the accuracy, completeness or suitability of any resource listed and take no responsibility or liability in connection with the use or misuse of any material. Our intent is to offer a sampling of resources related to adoption issues that might be of help to you.
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- Attachment and Trauma Network
- The Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska
- Adopting the Hurt Child by Keck & Kupecky
- The Connected Child by Purvis, Cross & Sunshine
- TCU Institute of Child Development (DVDs) Empowering, Connecting & Correcting Principles, Trust Based Parenting, Creating lasting changes in your child’s behavior, Playful Interaction” Nurturing relationships
- Orphans Promise Presents: Adoption & Foster RX: Solutions for Wounded Families (DVD)
- Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes (Books and DVDs available)
- From Fear to Love by Bryan Post (The Post Institute)
- The Great Behavior Breakdown by Bryan Post
- Beyond Consequences by Heather Forbes
- Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes by Levine & Kline
- Trauma, Brain & Relationships: Helping Children Heal (YouTube) posted by The Post Institute
- Arizona Trauma Institute
- Forward Facing Trauma Therapy by Dr. J Eric Gentry
- The Explosive Child by Ross Greene
- Your Defiant Child by Barkley & Benton
- Try and Make ME by Levy & Ohanlon
- The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis
- Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World by Freed & Parsons
- Disconnected Kids by Dr. Robert Melillo
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
- Understood.org
- The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney
- Look Me in the Eyes: My Life with Aspergers by John Robison
- Spoon Foundation
- Managing ADHD with Diet (research and suggestions for nutrition connections to ADHD symptoms)
- Parenting the Hurt Child by Keck & Kupecky
- 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Suceed by Sherrie Eldridge
- 20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
- Adoptive Parent Intentional Parent by Stacy Manning
- Stacy Manning Parent Coach
- Education Consultants (assist with out-of-home placements)
- Therapy Gone Wild (article about wilderness programs)
- The Parallel Process by Krissy Prozatek
- The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz
- A Sensory World (featuring Kranowitz) by TCU Institute of Child Development (DVDs)
- The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder, by Terri Mauro
- Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Nationwide Practitioners
State by State Resources
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This is an ongoing, non exhaustive list of resources we learn about from fellow parents on this journey.

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