CASE: Annual Giving Campaign 2005

Annual Giving Campaign 2005

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C.A.S.E. is a unique non-profit adoptive family support center dedicated to helping children from a variety of foster care and adoptive background receive the understanding and support the need to grow into successful, productive adults.

Daniel’s Story
Early experiences often traumatic
Challenges they face
What we are doing
Honoring the Giver

Daniel

I felt like the trash bag that I was carrying around, except….the clothing inside the bag was my life and my LIFE was the trash inside the bag .

I was 5 years old…

I was taken away from my abusive family and placed in foster care .

I was escaping hurt and pain, it was traumatic . Everyone I knew – parents, brother, sister, friends – taken away.

I had to put all my belongings in a trash bag. I took that bag with me from foster home to foster home. I didn’t bother to unpack… I hated myself”.

When I was six years old, I came to a family that would adopt me. I didn’t really understand what this meant. I wanted a family, but I was afraid of losing yet another. I acted out in destructive ways and … I still kept my belongings in a trash bag.

My family took me to see doctors and psychiatrists . No one understood me. I shut down . I tried to get myself kicked out of the family… I wouldn’t let anyone get close to me…

My parents finally found me the right help . I started to connect with my adoptive family . I confronted my problems and my life changed – forever . Daniel

Yes, I want to help children like Daniel

Early experiences often traumatic

Over 49,000 children were adopted from foster care this year; 119,000 are still waiting. Almost 23,000 children were adopted from international orphanages. These children’s early experiences are often traumatic and can include:

Sexual, emotional, physical abuse; neglect or abandonment
Care giving adults who have been drug or alcohol addicted or mentally ill, unable to care for themselves, let alone children
Witnessing violence, even murder against a loved one; death of a caregiver
Multiple caregivers and moves both prior to and subsequent to placement in foster care.

Adults expect children to move into adoptive placements smoothly, easily settling into new lives…

Challenges they face

Early trauma can be devastating to the healthy and successful development of a child.

It can:

Impair their ability to bond and attach to their adoptive family
Overwhelm them with feelings of loss and grief
Create developmental issues as well as social-emotional challenges
Interfere with their ability to learn & make it difficult to relate to others

When love is not enough

Early trauma can impair or cripple a child’s ability to trust and bond with their adoptive family. Children who suffer such traumatic beginnings, and their adoptive families, need the support and guidance of adoption competent specialists.. Even experienced and loving parents may struggle to help their children heal.

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What we are doing:

Early intervention and support is key to achieve success for these adoptive families. Our experience validates the need for adoption-centered therapeutic specialists. A large percentage of the children we see at CASE have a history of abuse and neglect. Nationally recognized for our contributions and expertise in adoption issues, our award winning adoption-competent staff understands the challenges these children face everyday.

Research supports the value of early intervention and specialized support services for adoptive families . Without expert support, the outcomes are less successful . Children who have been traumatized, continue to struggle . At C .A .S .E ., we use a proven adoption-centered therapeutic approach for individual and family counseling .

Our programs are designed to:

meet the challenging, complex needs of children with early trauma
promote strong, healthy attachments for adopted children
increase the stability of adoptive families as children move into permanent homes
educate parents, professionals and the community about the unique joys and challenges in adoption
share our expertise and knowledge by training professionals

Our Accomplishments

In the last 6 years, we have:

completed over 19,360 counseling sessions
served over 3,000 families
established Kids & Teens Adoption Network – groups where kids and teens can share common experiences in a supportive environment
educated more than 7,511 parents in workshops on a variety of adoption topics
trained more than 6,853 professionals including child welfare workers, school personnel, judges and pediatrician, about adoption-related issues and how they impact children and families

Honoring the Giver with our “Tree of Giving”

We chose the tree as our logo because of its symbol in adoption: each child grows strong because one family establishes the roots and one family grows the branches . Our “Tree of Giving” symbolizes that our strength grows from the contributions of individuals like you . Beginning with our 2005 Giving Campaign, we honor the giver by engraving your name on a leaf in recognition of your contribution to our growth .

Give the gift that last a lifetime: a gift from your family, memorialize a loved on, honor a friend .

Levels of Giving
$100 - Green leaf
$250 - Bronze leaf
$500 - Silver leaf
$1,000 - Gold leaf

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