The Adoptee Collective

Trauma Informed and Adoptee Centered Support and Resources

for those with care experience

Families and practitioners are our secondary clients

learning through the voice of those with care experience

My Story Book is a therapeutic workbook to capture and preserve your own story, in your own words, for your own sake
Baby books and case files cannot tell your life story.
Through guided journaling and interactive tools , the reader no longer has to rely on retelling from others or case files.
My Story Book was developed with input from adoptees and experts worldwide, to encourage ownership of all the chapters of a life story.
KIDS EDITION, ADULT EDITION, and SPANISH VERSION NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON, purchase on the link below.
GIVE ONE: DONATE HERE TO GIFT A MY STORY BOOK TO A FOSTER YOUTH

TRAUMA INFORMED

Support must be trauma informed because early trauma, including in-utero stress, has lasting and often invisible impact. We seek to hold space for those with care experience to integrate all the chapters of their story.
ADOPTEE CENTERED

Parenting and practice must be adoptee centered, with all systems centered on the well-being of adoptees. With lived experiences, adoptees are the true experts who should inform parenting and practice.
CULTURAL HUMILITY

We must recognize we don’t know what we don’t know. And we’re willing to do the work to educate ourselves, meeting the unique needs and honoring the full identity of others, while contextualizing resources.

Our vision is to be a healing adoptee community who revolutionize the systems that impact them.

Adoption and foster care have historically catered to decision-makers rather than being transparent, adoptee centered, and trauma informed.
We believe global child welfare responses must be contextualized for the culture of each country, by the people of that culture.
We believe adoptees have the right to information and ownership of their own story, with a sense of felt safety and belonging.
We seek to hold space for adoptees to integrate all the chapters of their story, with opportunity to revolutionize the systems that impact them.

As a $10,000 grant recipient, The Adoptee Collective thanks HEB for equipping us to serve our community.