About The Adoptee Collective
The Adoptee Collective seeks to be a healing adoptee community who revolutionize the systems that impact them.
The Adoptee Collective is a mission-driven social enterprise supporting adoptees and their families through therapy, programs, and education. In Kenya, The Adoptee Collective, LTD. provides therapeutic care and programs designed to meet the unique needs of adoptees and their families. We create safe, connected spaces for healing, learning, and community, offering care that honors each individual’s full story.
We are part of a global network. The Adoptee Collective, LLC., delivers adoptee-led consulting, while our nonprofit affiliate, The Adoptee Collective USA, secures grants and donor support to make programs more affordable and accessible. Operating under The Women’s Non-Profit Alliance (WNPA), the nonprofit helps subsidize therapy costs, expand community initiatives, and in the future will provide dedicated financial aid for adoptees who need mental healthcare but cannot afford it.
By combining local therapy services with global support, The Adoptee Collective ensures that adoptees and families can access the care, education, and community programs they need to heal, grow, and thrive.
Our Values
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TRAUMA INFORMED
Early trauma, including in-utero stress and disruptions in caregiving, can have lasting and often invisible impacts. We create spaces where adoptees and those with care experience can safely explore and integrate all chapters of their story. By promoting trauma-informed understanding in homes, schools, and communities, we work toward systems that better support healing and well-being.
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ADOPTEE CENTERED
The well-being of adoptees must remain at the center of adoption and foster care systems. Because of their lived experience, adoptees offer essential insight that should inform parenting, practice, and policy. We believe listening to and learning from adoptee voices helps create more ethical, supportive systems for children and families.
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CULTURAL HUMILITY
Cultural humility means recognizing that we do not know everything and remaining committed to ongoing learning. We seek to honor the full identities and lived experiences of those we serve, including individuals in transracial and transcultural adoptions. By approaching others with curiosity, respect, and accountability, we work to provide more responsive and culturally informed care.
What does Adoptee Centered mean?
Read our treaty on adoptee centeredness to better understand the normalized standard we seek for adoption and foster care practice.
We are TBRI® Practitioners
TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.