This episode of Heart-To-Heart with Adoptions From The Heart features Keri Friedman and Jennifer Conn. Keri is a Chinese adoptee who will soon be graduating college with a degree in Psychology and is currently interning at Adoptions From The Heart. Jennifer is a Korean adoptee who works with adoptees and families as a licensed social [...]
AFTH adoption triads finally reunite in Virginia after an unprecedented year. Adoptee, Jonathan, embraces his birth mother Samantha The pandemic stopped many of our beloved traditions as families, friends, and even an adoption agency. To protect one another from sickness, we postponed or canceled gatherings, including our summer picnics. Adoptions From The Heart's [...]
July's Heart to Heart with Adoptions from the Heart podcast centers on Birth Parents and Adoptees searches and reuniting. Host Jenna Stocks interview Helen Schooler and Marilyn Rich on this topic. Helen Schooler is a retired Administrator of Orphans Court Services in Montgomery County. She still provides adoption search services as the court-designated authorized representative [...]
Each semester, Adoptions From The Heart awards scholarship money to a couple of incredible birth parents. As the time draws near to announce the winners of the Fall 2021 winner of the Birth Parent Scholarship, let's look back on the impact of receiving the scholarship through the words of previous winners. Scholarship Changes Lives "After [...]
Summer Activities for Safe Open Adoption Visits As the icy air lifts, the possibility for outdoor fun becomes limitless. Spring and summer make the perfect time to host open adoption reunions among adoption triads. The warm sun, blooming flowers and chirping birds are the perfect background to new experiences together. Each year Adoptions From The [...]
What Does it Mean to Be a Good Father? "Being a good father is being devoted, mentally and physically and emotionally...being devoted to your actual kid and not what's going on in the outside world." To Josh, being a good father doesn't mean showing up and just taking his kid to a game if he's [...]
Chance Encounter Between Strangers Creates an Adoption Connection One day, outside Orangetheory Fitness, a woman is walking on a sidewalk, going about her day. She sees a man coming in the opposite direction. He isn’t doing anything out of the ordinary, but his mask catches her attention. Masks are very common these days, in the [...]
Rarely do we meet people who make a tremendous impact in our lives. Yet that is exactly what happened to Tiffany last year in 2020. The young woman was facing one of the most difficult circumstances any person can face. With the help and guidance from a compassionate nurse, Tiffany pulled through. Originally from Lancaster, [...]
An Advocate is Born An advocate, speaker, author, and influencer at just 18 years old, Ayden’s story is far from ordinary. Ayden Lincoln was born on October 28th, 2002, in China. Less than a day old, Ayden was found with her umbilical cord still attached after being abandoned in a shoebox. She was subsequently brought [...]
In recognition of National Infertility Week, this month’s Heart-to-Heart podcast focuses on navigating infertility. As usual, Jenna Smith, AFTH’s Domestic Program Coordinator, hosted the podcast. There were two guest speakers this week, Tracy and Michelina. Tracy is a Content Manager at Creating a Family, the national non-profit whose mission is to strengthen and inspire adoptive, [...]
