Meet Jeanette Yoffe
Jeanette’s desire to become a child therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system. Her personal experience has informed her education and provided insight into the unique stresses involved with these issues. Because of Jeanette’s life experience she can more easily connect and relate to the children and teens she works with. She is an exceptional child-care worker who is dedicated to helping each of her clients reach their full potential through mental health therapy and make the difficult journey from despair towards resiliency and hope. Read More...
Jeanette Yoffe Documentary Film Interview
Jeanette is interviewed for a Documentary Film about Foster Care & Adoption and discusses the importance of connecting with your child's grief. Read More...
The Adopt Salon
A monthly open support group free for all members of the Adoption Triad: Birth parents, Adoptees, Former Foster Youth, Foster and Adoptive Parents. A place for the Adoption & Foster Care community to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections. The group is facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, Adult Adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT and a co-facilitator guest of the triad each month. Read More...
Attachment Focused Parenting For Foster and Adoptive Families
This Audio Download training is based on the book by Daniel Hughes, Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children, which brings the rich and comprehensive field of attachment theory and research from inside the therapy room to the outside, recommended for caregivers with practical parenting skills and techniques rooted in proven therapeutic principles for working with children and teenagers with attachment issues. A guide for all parents who are searching for ways to effectively love, discipline, and communicate with children. A handout will be emailed to participants to follow during the tele-class. Read More...
BAGGAGE CLAIM: Your Final Destination for Healing…… for Adult Adoptees
BAGGAGE CLAIM: YOUR FINAL DESTINATION 4 Call Series on Thursdays in May 2012 with Jeanette Yoffe
An adoptees psychological and emotional stuff runs on a never ending conveyer belt like baggage. We deny the baggage is ours over and over, we get angry because it constantly appears before us, we bargain and question whether it's really our 'stuff", and we are saddened because we experience shame and pain upon it's mere presence....
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ADOPTEES: WE CAN HEAL…
Listen to a series of conversations hosted by Jennifer Lauck, Author of FOUND with Jeanette Yoffe and fellow adoptees Brian Stanton & Trish Lay discuss the Adult Adoptees discovery of truth, identity and the profound search for who we truly are, how we've learned to forgive the circumstances of our lives and what we continue to do to heal the many selves we've "lost and found..."Listen Here...Groundbreaking Interventions MANUAL
A book of 30 interventions designed to teach new and imaginative ways for working with traumatized children in foster care and adoption and their families. Groundbreaking Interventions provides a wide variety of play-based methodologies that have been successful in working with children over the age of five in foster care and adoption. Read More...- Currently, there are 463,000 children in the U.S. foster care system and 115,000 of those children are waiting for families to adopt them.
- In Los Angeles currently there are 34,987 children in foster care and 4,818 in the adoption process… as per the DCFS Fact Sheet December 2011.
- The decision to relinquish a child for adoption is often a tremendous act of love by birth parents, and saying that the children “were never wanted” is a fallacy…
- 90% of youth who transition out of the foster care system without ever being adopted have no adult to turn to, and are not sure if they had an adult to turn to, even for minor help such as a ride to the doctor…
- Most adoptees are adopted out within a 20 mile radius of where they were born. Most adoptees have a 70% chance of being reunited with their birth family.