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Short Videos & Clips
Short Videos & Clips for Everyone
Attachment Theory
Brene Brown "We Need to Talk About Shame"
AA Videos
Short Videos & Clips for Adult Adoptees
What Is Your Attachment Style
Attachment theory refers to a set of ideas formulated by psychologists in the 1960s that gives us an exceptionally useful guide to how we behave in relationships. Knowing whether we are secure, anxious or avoidant in our attachment patterns gives us a vocabulary with which to get on top of some very tricky dynamics and helps us grow into more predictable and more joyful companions in love.
Adoption & Addiction: Remembered not Recalled: A Lecture by Paul Sunderland
Paul Sunderland Talks About Adoption and Addiction
Meet Me On The Bridge
When Kati Pohler was three days old she was left at a market in China. She was later adopted by an American family.
When she was 20, Kati discovered her birth parents had left her a note, and that every year on the same day, they waited for her on a famous bridge in Hangzhou.
When she was 20, Kati discovered her birth parents had left her a note, and that every year on the same day, they waited for her on a famous bridge in Hangzhou.
Project Search and Reunion
Amara's Angela Tucker talks about a project that will help thousands of people touched by adoption in Washington. Aired 10-3-18.
Superman Foster Dad
Having grown up in the foster care system with his belongings kept in a garbage bag, Rob Scheer struggled to find a place where he felt wanted and loved as a child. Now, he wants to ensure that no kid has to endure the same pain and indignities that he did.
So, when he and his husband were ready to start a family of their own, they decided to foster — and later adopt — four children.
On Feb. 8, Upworthy shared their story on Facebook, and in just over a week, it's been seen by over 39 million people across the world.
Even better, Rob and his family have raised over $103,000 for their foundation, Comfort Cases, which provides backpacks filled with PJs, toothpaste, a toy, a blanket, and a book for kids in the foster system.
So, when he and his husband were ready to start a family of their own, they decided to foster — and later adopt — four children.
On Feb. 8, Upworthy shared their story on Facebook, and in just over a week, it's been seen by over 39 million people across the world.
Even better, Rob and his family have raised over $103,000 for their foundation, Comfort Cases, which provides backpacks filled with PJs, toothpaste, a toy, a blanket, and a book for kids in the foster system.
I've Never Met My Biological Mother
I've Never Met My Biological Mother
I found my Birth Father: Ryan Jon
An update on Ryan Jon's search for his biological family.
Woman Tracks Down Biological Father After 80 Years with DNA from a Stamp
A woman abandoned as a baby under a blackberry bush has tracked down the identity of her biological father, using the DNA found on a postage stamp.
A Short Film About Adoption
David Scotton is a college student raised in Louisiana who boards a train headed to meet his birth parents in Indiana. His tattooed birth mother, Melissa, and reserved birth father, Brian, anxiously wait for him, concerned David will reject them for decisions they made before he was born.
I Lived on Parker Avenue is a short documentary about a mother’s agony in choosing what’s best, the joy of a couple starting a family, and young man’s search for where his life began. The film was released online on March 8 2018. Visit www.ILivedOnParkerAve.com for more information!
I Lived on Parker Avenue is a short documentary about a mother’s agony in choosing what’s best, the joy of a couple starting a family, and young man’s search for where his life began. The film was released online on March 8 2018. Visit www.ILivedOnParkerAve.com for more information!
BP Videos
Short Videos & Clips for Birth Families
AF Videos
Short Videos & Clips for Adoptive Families
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
Therapeutic Parenting during Hyperarousal and Hypoarousal
Parenting children who have experienced trauma is much different than parenting children who have had a healthy childhood. When I learned about this "window of tolerance" it really helped me to understand some of my previous foster children's behaviour. I hope you find this as a helpful resource for foster parents. Trauma Parenting is tough.
My Mental Breakdown after becoming a Foster Parent
Another hard video to share. Talking about one of the hardest things I went through since becoming a foster parent. In our information at your fingertips, immediate gratification world, we live in it is very easy to fall into the always being busy, always doing too much mindset. We forget about ourselves and our needs as mothers. We give, we give and we give some more but something's gotta give.
Project Search and Reunion: Amara
Amara's Angela Tucker talks about a project that will help thousands of people touched by adoption in Washington. Aired 10-3-18.
The Adopted Life, Episode #1 -- Washington, D.C.
Transracial adoptee Angela Tucker talks 1-on-1 with young adoptees about -- you guessed it -- adoption.
Not Your Orphan Youtube Channel
Not Your Orphan is more than a channel...it's a movement.
Disclaimer, I am definitely not the first to be talking critical adoption history/identity/politics and so forth. There’s been a lot of prior energy created by incredible people. I’m just an extra drop in the pond. As the series grows, we’ll investigate social values, human rights violations, historic malevolence, intersectional issues, and hopefully travel to and film key locations and radical figures in the field of adoption reform.
Disclaimer, I am definitely not the first to be talking critical adoption history/identity/politics and so forth. There’s been a lot of prior energy created by incredible people. I’m just an extra drop in the pond. As the series grows, we’ll investigate social values, human rights violations, historic malevolence, intersectional issues, and hopefully travel to and film key locations and radical figures in the field of adoption reform.
Pro Videos
Short Videos & Clips for Professionals
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