Speaker, birthmother, and author of the memoir Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey into the Light, Hope O. Helder talks about building resilience and learning to thrive despite the circumstances life throws you. In conversation with moderator, advice columnist, and birthmother Liz Pryor, author...

Clemencia Deleon, a birthmother who placed her child in a kinship adoption, unpacks the complexity of kinship adoption, and the importance of honesty and emotional intelligence in navigating this form of adoption. There are a lot of obvious benefits built in to kinship adoption: the adopted child...

Dr. Liz DeBetta is an adopted person and the author of Migrating Toward Wholeness: Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal. Dr. DeBetta also is performer of the award-winning solo show Un-M-Othered: A Story of Adoption & Patriarchy. She is an interdisciplinary scholar-artist-activist who is committed ...

TreeHouse Health’s President & Clinical Director Billy Kaplan, LCSW, discusses the critical importance of providing adopted children therapeutic parenting through an attachment-focused, trauma-informed lens, but with a reminder to parents that nobody benefits when parents don’t also take care of ...

Cordan James, Executive Director of Fathering Together and a transracially adopted person, is a social entrepreneur whose work focuses on education and empowerment. He rose from adversity to become a leading motivational speaker and youth/family mentor, guiding children and adults through exerci...