Special Education/IEPs for Children with Attachment Trauma – FREE Webinar
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 @ 12:00 pm EDT The Attachment & Trauma Network is hosting this FREE webinar will explore the hows and whys of special education for children who have Attachment Trauma (attachment disorders, developmental trauma, etc.) Melissa Sadin, M.Ed., M.A.T. and Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director will explore the steps of getting your […]
Ginger Healy
Ginger Healy MSW, LCSW started her career as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international adoption agency where she learned about developmental trauma and attachment needs in children. She is currently a clinical social worker and the director of programs […]
Adam Pertman
Mr. Pertman is president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP) a national non-profit focused on shifting child welfare policy and practice from the traditional “child placement” model to a “family success” paradigm. For the past decade, he established himself as one of the most respected and effective thought leaders in the child welfare world as the […]
Ross Greene
Dr. Greene is the originator of the innovative, research-based approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books The Explosive Child and Lost at School, and in the forthcoming books Lost & Found and Raising Human Beings. Dr. Greene served on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School for […]
Melissa Sadin
Melissa is a mother to two sons (one adopted and one bio), a wife, and a life long educator. She began her career as a high school special education teacher working in a self-contained classroom for emotionally challenged young adults. After twelve years in classrooms in all grades 2-12, she became an administrator. During her […]
Stephanie Garde
Stephanie Garde volunteered with ATN for 9 years and was a Board Member before becoming the Operations Manager in 2018. She and her husband are parents to two sons, one by adoption and one by birth. Their experience with trauma and attachment issues started when they adopted a 5 year old boy from state custody […]
Julie Beem
Julie Beem has been the Executive Director of the Attachment & Trauma Network since 2009 and an active member and volunteer since 2005. Julie lives in the Atlanta area and is the mom to four and grandmother to 3. Her youngest daughter, adopted internationally 25 years ago was the reason she found support and education […]
ATN joins Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions (FRUA), Attach-China International and INCIID to petition on capital hill
Nov 19, 2013: ATN, along with Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions (FRUA), Attach-China International and INCIID, jointly sent this letter to the US Representatives Langevin and Bass, along with the panelists of their November 21 “rehoming briefing” on Capitol Hill.
Joint letter about congressional rehoming briefing
Read the letter here: Joint letter about congressional rehoming briefing -ATN, FRUA, Attach-China International and INCIID
Beem accepts award for ATN
September 24, 2013: Attachment & Trauma Network was one of over 30 child-focused organizations recognized for their outstanding work by the Atlanta Braves Foundation. Julie Beem, Executive Director of ATN, accepted the award for the organization, which includes a grant for a training event in the Atlanta metro area in early 2014.