Jeanette-ically Speaking About Adoption & Foster Care

12/24/2024

🎉 Happy Holidays from Jeanette-ically Speaking! 🎄

As the holiday season fills the air with warmth and joy, we have something special to celebrate with YOU, our amazing viewers. 🎥✨

Thanks to your support, encouragement, and engagement, Jeanette-ically Speaking has reached an incredible milestone—"over 1,000,000 views"!

🌟 We are so deeply grateful to each and every one of you for watching, commenting, and sharing our videos. Your trust in our content fuels our mission to educate, inspire, and create meaningful conversations.

To celebrate, we’re sharing a special holiday video with you all. 💌 https://youtu.be/NeP4nIArjGs?si=_mK_8CH4XxctlI2X

Let’s wrap up this year with gratitude, connection, and hope for the future. Here’s to another year of growth and connection together. Thank you for being part of our journey—you make it all worth it!

Warm holiday wishes,
Jeanette Yoffe 💙

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11/27/2024

Celia Center Arts Festival provides a platform for artists who have been impacted by foster care and adoption to express their experiences through various creative mediums. This festival aims to bring together the voices of adoptees and foster youth, offering them a space to share their stories, foster community, and deepen the conversation around adoption and foster care.
Watch an adoptee, Roslin Real, honor their ancestors through fire spinning.
https://youtu.be/NdQukDJKLWg

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11/26/2024

This channel was created by Jeanette Yoffe an Adoption & Foster Care Expert Psychotherapist in Los Angeles, as well as a mother, wife, creative entrepreneur, and author.

She created this channel for the 200 million Americans who have been personally connected by adoption and foster care, or for those who know someone who has been adopted and/or was in foster care.

Jeanette grew up in New York State foster care system for 6 1/2 years and was adopted at the age of 7.

This channel supports the adoption and foster care constellation, including children in family preservation, family reunification, foster care, adoption, open-adoption, first mothers and fathers, foster parents, kinship families, adoptive parents, social workers, psychotherapists and anyone wanting to learn about the psychological and emotional treatment.

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Jeanette Yoffe is an Adoption & Foster Care Expert Psychotherapist in Los Angeles, as well as a mother, wife, creative entrepreneur, and author. She created this channel for the 200 million Americans who have been personally connected by adoption and foster care, or for those who know someone who ha...

11/26/2024

Hello and Happy Tuesday before Thanksgiving!

Take care of yourself this holiday season. Happy Self-ThanksGiving! Self-acceptance leads to self-love. Be YOUR best self by accepting all parts of you. Part...

11/08/2024

🌟 November is National Adoption Month! 🌟

Dive deeper into the inner life of adoptees with the timeless insights of Betty Jean Lifton, one of the first authors to eloquently write about adoption and the adoptee experience. Her work shines a light on the complex emotions, identities, and journeys that adoptees navigate. This is an old recording from the American Adoption Congress Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYWAZVpDLcA

Check out this insightful video on the Jeanette-ically Speaking YouTube channel to learn more! 📽️✨

🧡 Jeanette Yoffe

11/06/2024

🌟 **November is National Adoption Month & National Family Court Awareness Month!** 🌟

This month, we’re spotlighting the importance of family stability, the adoption journey, and the role of family courts in safeguarding children’s best interests. Did you know that over **120,000 children in the U.S. are waiting to be adopted** and that the family court system handles more than **250,000 child welfare cases** each year? These cases are pivotal in determining safe, permanent homes for kids across the country.

To help children better understand family court, check out this new animation: What is Family Court?
📽️ https://youtu.be/rMCLxlCTghE
This video gently explains the family court process, offering a child-friendly guide to navigating what can sometimes be a confusing and overwhelming experience.

Let’s continue raising awareness and supporting every child’s right to a safe and loving family! 🧡

10/22/2024

🌟 **Thank You for 925,000 Views!** 🌟

Wow! Since 2010, this YouTube channel has reached an incredible 925,000 views, and I couldn’t be more grateful! Each view, like, comment, and share means the world to me. Whether you've been here since the beginning or just found us, thank you for being part of this amazing journey. Your support, feedback, and encouragement keep me motivated to create content that connects with you.

Here’s to all of you, and to the next milestone! 🙏💖

10/10/2024

I've always dreamed of creating a journal specifically for a place where they can reflect on their transitions, process early childhood adversities, and begin to organize their thoughts. This journal would help them craft their own narrative, giving them a voice in their story and empowering them on their journey of healing and self-discovery. For Child-Parent Psychotherapy Foster Parents
Child Welfare Information Gateway Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) Foster Adopt Minnesota Fostering Families Today

My Foster Care Journey This unique and empowering book is designed specifically for foster youth, offering a safe space to write, draw, and reflect on their personal journey through foster care. My Foster Care Journey is more than just a journal—it's a guide to self-discovery, resilience, and per....

10/03/2024

I receive many requests about answering questions age-appropriately for Foster and Adopted Children. Please see this video playlist which provides responses to questions developmentally. I hope you find this helpful!

13 Part Training developed by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Expert and Former Foster Youth and Adoptee working in the field of adoption today. This training will ass...

09/24/2024

Announcing our upcoming Celia Center Arts Festival
Adoptee Foster Youth Arts Fest in Los Angeles. Our exhibit is Adoptee Jeff Forney Photography of across the USA. More info: https://celiacenterartsfestival.org/exhibits-performances/

Purchase Tickets! Purchase tickets here This year’s 4th Celia Center Arts Festival features the works of artists who use their creativity to express their experiences as individuals who were adopted and/or in foster care across many mediums. Entitled “Adopting Resilience, Fostering the Spirit of...

09/12/2024

Join me at the upcoming National Foster Care Mental Health Training for Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Teachers, and Counselors. Thank you PESI for believing in me and understanding the needs of Foster Youth. 100% 😌

In this webinar, you will deepen your understanding of the challenges that result from trauma, instability, and disruption for children in foster care. Sign up for September 19th: https://catalog.pesi.com/item/kids-foster-care-transformative-tools-treat-trauma-abandonment-abuse-grief-loss-136362
**Learn how to utilize child friendly trauma-informed assessment strategies.
**Demonstrate three new interventions to manage the four primary survival responses: fight-flight-freeze and fawn.
**Define the 7 non-verbal strategies to build trust, rapport and connection.
**Name 3 Expressive Therapeutic Tools used to contain feelings, thoughts, and sensations for children with complex trauma.
**Implement interventions to help a child construct a coherent narrative.

Kids in Foster Care: Transformative tools to treat the trauma of abandonment, abuse, grief, and loss

05/17/2024

10 Parenting Skills an Adoptee wants Adoptive Foster Parents to Know Part I: Parent Yourself First https://youtu.be/1d6yTageY84
Stay tuned for Part II coming next.

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05/02/2024

It's foster care awareness month. Explaining foster care to a child is challenging. This video I made for children to help them understand what is happening. Many are confused. I know firsthand how it feels to be in foster care. For 6 years I felt very alone! No one explained a thing! https://tinyurl.com/3ca8szus

04/04/2024

Helping Fostering Families Today Adoptive Families understand the connection between shame and rejection. The mental health struggles of foster youth and adoptees are critical. If we don't identify shame as "a healthy response to an early Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACEs a child will hide their motives, blame others for their behavior and the attachment will be compromised. Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) Jeanette Yoffe

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03/29/2024

When you have a Jeanette-ically Speaking About Adoption & Foster Care YouTube Channel there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes. I have created a list of recommended books all about Adoption and Foster Care and Mental Health recommendations for Adoptees, Foster Youth, Parents, Therapists and Social Workers. Learn more here:

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03/26/2024

Check out the latest coffee mug I made for adoptees at Jeanette-ically Speaking About Adoption & Foster Care Store. This store helps support my YouTube channel providing videos about and It's a lifelong journey! https://jeanette-ically-speaking.creator-spring.com/listing/good-enough-5745?product=1565&variation=104935&size=6013

03/18/2024

Thank you so much for watching Jeanette-ically Speaking About Adoption & Foster Care all about Adoption Foster Care and Mental Health! Never give up on your dream!

03/12/2024

David B. Bohl is a leader in the field of Adoption and Addiction. He has helped so many adoptees battle addiction and supported Adoptive Families. Here is Part I of his session at the Celia Center, Inc. National Adoption Conference titled SEPARATION TRAUMA and ADDICTION. Watch here: https://youtu.be/RArJiaSEKg4


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