Post-Permanency Newsletter

How we connect with others is key to our mental health. Depending on our past experience, we all have a specific type of attachment style. What’s key for all adopted children is that they were separated from their biological parent/s. This bond WAS disrupted. No matter how wonderful you are as a parent, this turmoil always impacts your children’s everyday lives, behaviors, sense of self, ability to manage hard things, to name a few. As adopted parents, we must understand the interaction of early attachment to present day to become the best parent we can possibly be.

As Covid continues, it becomes more and more crucial to attend to our children’s mental health. All the uncertainties and unknowns have burdened all of us over the past 2 years. Planning a summer full of fun, healing, structure, and with peers and activities that your child prefers is the perfect antidote.

We are signing our 7-year-old son up for Summer Camp at our local YMCA. This will be his first time attending any camp at all. He is excited to go but we are nervous. Our question is how we do talk to the YMCA Camp staff, so they make the right accommodations for him to be successful this summer?

We adopted our son at birth and know he was exposed to opioids in utero and has since suffered some negative effects. He gets mad so easily. Meltdowns are his norm. He does great at school as he is part of an Emotional Support Classroom, and they work wonders with him.

Looking forward to your wisdom.

Very truly yours, Nervous Parents

It’s daunting enough to look for services for your child who may have a mental health concern. Figuring out what all those mental health acronyms mean will alienate the bravest among us. Read on for a quick guide!

As parents, untangling all the different mental health options available and appropriate for your child is challenging to say the least. The available levels of care build upon each other and when one option has failed to help, your child moves onto the next. Each level of care becomes increasingly demanding, involved, and intense. Let’s break this concept down.