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ADOPTION STORIES

Jo Dery and Tamara Evanson

A series of interviews with foster/adoptive families, adult adoptees, and adoption-support professionals in Windham County, VT – created by artist and educator Jo Dery and clinical social worker and psychotherapist Tamara Evanson, both foster/adoptive parents. Children in foster care should be of concern to every Vermonter. In the past decade, our state’s child welfare system has been, and remains, under great stress. The themes touched on in these interviews include trauma, grief, resilience,

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Trailer

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/11/21

Listen here for a sampling of Adoption Stories interviews. For more, listen below or on our website!

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Welcome

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Welcome to Adoption Stories - a series of audio interviews with foster/adoptive families, adult adoptees, and adoption support professionals in Windham County, Vermont. Begin listening here to learn more about our project!

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Lorni Cochran

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Lorni Cochran is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist. She practices a developmental form of Movement Therapy that works with the body, movement, and sensation to release restrictive habits and patterns that often have their roots in early experiences. Through both therapy and consulting, she has helped a wide variety of children, adults, and families. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen OT, Daniel Hughes PhD, Bruce Perry MD, Bessel van der Kolk MD, Daniel Siegel MD, and Pat Ogden PhD have strongly

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Sarah Crozier

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Sarah Crozier is a Case Manager with Northeast Family Institute. She works with children, their families, and community partners using the ARC framework to help build a family’s capacity to integrate trauma experience. ARC stands for attachment, regulation, and competency. This framework is used as a guide when working with children and families to help them better understand what impact trauma has had on their lives, and to build skills to be successful within all environments by learning how to

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Lissa Schneckenburger and Corey DiMario

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Lissa Schneckenburger is a singer, fiddler, composer, and activist based in Brattleboro. Thunder in my Arms was Lissa’s first release of all-original music, and a song-cycle about attachment, parenting, and developmental trauma – copies of which are donated to foster/adoptive families. Corey DiMario is a double-bassist and proprietor of Patio Coffee in Brattleboro. Corey is a founding member of the string band Crooked Still, and has performed at major festivals and concert venues

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Alex Fischer

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Alex Fischer is a queer non-binary Sicilian Jew and a single adoptive parent living in Brattleboro, VT. They are a member of A Bookkeeper Cooperative, a unionized worker-owned cooperative that focuses on financial management for the solidarity economy & social movements. When not making spreadsheets & budgets, they can be found laughing outside in a garden, lake or the ocean; organizing around prison abolition and racial justice; and making art & food for loved ones. After years of

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The Cavanaugh Family

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Lise Cavanaugh is a public librarian in Westminster West, Vermont. Originally from Denmark, Lise moved to Vermont in 2000. Twelve years ago, she became the foster parent to siblings Jasmine and Sklyer, and six years later, to Grayson – all of whom are now adopted. Lise and the kids share their home with a collection of cats, dogs, chickens, and horses. In this interview, we talk with Lise, Jasmine, Skyler, and Grayson about continuing to welcome foster kids into their home, what it's like to be

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The Mercer Family

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Donna and Maxine (Max) Mercer live in Brattleboro, with their cat Lily. Donna was born in Colebrook, NH, where she graduated high school in 1977. After hitchhiking across the US, she settled in Washington, became a mother, and worked as a surgical technician. After returning to New England, Donna was involved in a horrible head-on collision that left her disabled. Donna was 54 years old when her granddaughter, Max, was born. Max is now an eighth grader and has lived with Donna since she was an

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The McLaughlin Family

ADOPTION STORIES ·

2024/10/12

Liz Dimick and Zach McLaughlin met while teaching at Marshwood High School in South Berwick, Maine. Liz was a special educator and Zach taught Social Studies. After living on the Cape for a year, Liz and Zach relocated to Liz's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont. After facing challenges with fertility, Liz and Zach became foster parents to 6 year old Mary in 2015. A few years later, Ginger joined their home as a foster placement. Both girls have since been adopted. Liz and Zach are now working as

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Abby Jacobson

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2024/10/12

Abby Jacobson is a professional Adoptee Counselor, bringing over 20 years of experience from her previous career as a psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor. As a result of Abby’s familiarity with being a foster child, an adoptee, and a clinician, she is able to offer support, mentoring, and coaching to individuals who have experienced the process of adoption, both adults and youth alike. Coming from a family with 4 generations of adoptions, this is an issue she is very familiar with and

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