Cynthia heads the Family and Post-Adoption Services Department at The Barker Adoption Foundation.
From Infertility to Adoption
What is Infertility?Infertility is usually defined as the “inability to conceive within 12 months.” This diagnosis, unfortunately, occurs in 15% of couples trying to conceive. Infertility can look differently for many couples including treatments they choose, ways of coping and communicating, periods of mourning and loss, and eventually how couples decide to start their family or live a childfree life. This blog discusses what infertility is (some symptoms, testing, and treatments), the feelings of loss and stress it puts on a couple, and how infertility can lead to adoption for some people. |
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Who Is Jacari Harris?
Who is Jacari Harris?
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Adopting a Special Needs Child
The process of adoption presents all families with an intensely reflective process of choosing to pursue an adoption of a child in a special needs program. When preparing for both of our adoptions, completing the “checklist of special needs” was reliably one of the most difficult decision-making processes. Googling your way to being a specialist in just about every special need imaginable and leveraging every known contact, no matter how remote, with any medical knowledge is an exhausting start.
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Michele Mazzei
Michele is the Director of Development and responsible for crafting, implementing and managing development and fundraising strategies. She is also responsible for expanding and deepening relationships with the Barker Adoption Foundation community.
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You Have The Power To Create A Better Life For Older Foster Youth
You have the power to create a better life for older foster youth. I am the proof.
In 1998, at nine years old, I was featured on Wednesday’s Child, three years after being removed from my biological family. But after 15 foster placements and separations from my siblings, it was three years before I found a forever home.
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You Have The Power To Create A Better Life For Older Foster Youth
You have the power to create a better life for older foster youth. I am the proof.
In 1998, at nine years old, I was featured on Wednesday’s Child, three years after being removed from my biological family. But after 15 foster placements and separations from my siblings, it was three years before I found a forever home.
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My experience on The Barker Homeland Tour to Colombia
If I could define my experience of Barker’s Homeland Tour in one word, it would be grateful.
For years I’ve wanted to travel back to Bogota and explore where I was born, and I finally got the chance to go in the summer of 2016. I had mixed feelings of the trip where I was excited but nervous as I didn’t know what I would experience or find out going on this trip. In the end, I found a new perspective on how I saw my adoption, the Colombian people and the country I was born in.
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