ATN Angel: Jane Samuel
In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. By: Laura Dennis Well, at the beginning, Jane made a difference to me just by being in the same state! As most ATN members […]
ATN Angel: Dr. Lark Eshleman
In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. By: Jane Samuel My youngest child was getting to me. The daily tantrums. The inability to sit still for just one minute. The continual […]
ATN Angel: Nancy Spoolstra
In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. By: Lorraine Schneider The first time I met Nancy Spoolstra, she threw her arms around me giving me a huge hug. She told me […]
ATN Angel: Donald Craig Peterson
By: Julie Beem Tireless. That’s the word that comes to mind when describing Craig Peterson. Those on Facebook know him as Donald Craig Peterson. Craig is an author, an activist, an advocate, an advisor…but most importantly he’s a dad. Parenting six he adopted as a single parent has been far from easy. His children have […]
ATN Angel: Stephanie Reh Garde
By: Sheilah Davidson In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. Stephanie Garde: An angel among us. When researching solutions for my daughter’s attachment issues, I joined ATN and virtually “met” Stephanie […]
ATN Angel – Marc Deprey
By: Julie Beem In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. Late one night I flew into the San Francisco airport and there he stood. Neither one of us was sure we’d […]
ATN Angel – Larry Smith, LCSW
By Sheri Verdonk In celebration of ATN’s 2016 Angels in Adoption award, we’re profiling ATN members who have helped ATN win the award — and who have themselves been Angels to families and children. Our first profile is of Larry Smith, who we lost only a few short weeks ago. Sherry Verdonk, a former ATN board member […]
ATN Angel Nomination Thank You
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ATN is 2016 Angels in Adoption Recipient
The Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) will be honored for our 21 years of supporting and advocating for adoptive families of traumatized children and those with attachment disorders in September. ATN will receive an Angels in Adoption® award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) on September 20 in Washington, DC. Rep. Chris van […]
The passing of Lawrence B. Smith
In Memory of Larry… August 2016. With great sadness, we report the passing of Lawrence B. (Larry) Smith, LCSW of Silver Spring, MD on August 11, 2016. Larry was a well-respected therapist who specialized in attachment disorders, developmental trauma and FASD. He was an active volunteer with the Attachment & Trauma Network, serving as a […]