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Amara
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Добавлен 16 фев 2012
Amara is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children and families. We drive systemic change, promote healing, racial and LGBTQ+ equity, by offering programs and services to families engaged in foster care, and to adoptees and families, post-adoption.
We prepare foster families by offering individualized coaching and support. We are proud to offer our services to everyone, regardless of religious beliefs, gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, marital status, race, ethnicity, age, home ownership, income, or education so that we can better address the needs of children in foster care.
Through growing programs to support kinship care, family reunification, youth development, and nurturing continued connection to birth families and community, Amara continues to center innovative practices that influence and shape the field through informed practice and policy influence to ensure that all children, adults and families have what they need to grow and thrive.
We prepare foster families by offering individualized coaching and support. We are proud to offer our services to everyone, regardless of religious beliefs, gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, marital status, race, ethnicity, age, home ownership, income, or education so that we can better address the needs of children in foster care.
Through growing programs to support kinship care, family reunification, youth development, and nurturing continued connection to birth families and community, Amara continues to center innovative practices that influence and shape the field through informed practice and policy influence to ensure that all children, adults and families have what they need to grow and thrive.
Give Big 2024 - Amara Helps Families Heal
When you support Amara, you put in motion a cascade of positive impact for families that can allow them to begin to heal from the traumatic effects of the child welfare system, or even help prevent involvement with the system to begin with. Amara wraps around families during some of the most difficult times of their lives, offering support, connection, healing, and hope. Together we can begin the change we need to see in the child welfare system. Thank you for joining us during Give Big 2024.
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Видео
Why Kinship Care?
Просмотров 1114 месяца назад
The inspirational story of one of our dedicated Board of Directors members who experienced both foster care and kinship care. Why Kinship? also features our amazing kinship programming team, who walk viewers through the services and support Amara provides kinship families in King and Pierce counties.
Amara - For Kids, Families & Community
Просмотров 205Год назад
-For so much of our history, Amara’s work has focused on supporting foster families as they parent children in foster care. Our foster caregivers are incredible. They do what sometimes seems impossible: they love children as their own while supporting their return home. And, if returning home is not possible, our families become amazing and open adoptive families. And - as the system has change...
Speaking of Change - The Power of Community-Centered Design, spring 2023
Просмотров 68Год назад
Amara has launched several new programs to serve kids and families lately. One of the key “ingredients” in these new programs is the wisdom of people with lived experience. Their input infused each program so we could find ways to best serve kids and families, and ways to reduce possible barriers to reaching the programs in the first place. Community-centered program design can lead to programs...
Speaking of Change Fall 2022
Просмотров 70Год назад
Amara's fall 2022 Speaking of Change panel discussion about partnerships between parents and foster/kinship caregivers helping families and kids heal and thrive is a love and hope-filled conversation. We explored how authentic connection and partnership between parents and caregivers can help reduce the stress kids experience when placed in out-of-home care
An Amara Family Story
Просмотров 453Год назад
Sometimes difficult childhoods can drive people to become change-makers as adults. For Devon, that has meant fostering nearly two dozen kids with her husband James over the last several years. Together they have cared for infants, young children, school-age kids, tweens and teens. Through it all, they’ve provided support, guidance, and plenty of love. Amara has been honored to walk alongside De...
Supporting Relationships: Caitlin & Katie's Foster Care Story
Просмотров 1742 года назад
Amara foster parents make a real difference by connecting with children's first families.
Family Connections Program Animation
Просмотров 5792 года назад
Learn how an Amara Family Connections Program "Connections Conversation" happens between parents and caregivers in the child welfare system. The conversation focuses on the needs of children in care, and is facilitated by people with lived experience.
An Introduction to Amara’s Family Connections Program
Просмотров 3012 года назад
Learn why connections between parents and foster/kinship parents matter in the child welfare system. Amara's Family Connections Program is here to help facilitate these important relationships so children in foster/kinship care know that all the adults in their lives are working together. amarafamily.org/programs-resources/family-connections/
Speaking of Change: Transforming Foster Care
Просмотров 1282 года назад
Amara had an important conversation about the role of foster care and foster caregivers in our collective work to restore and heal families in our communities. Listen and take a deep dive into what our foster care program actually does for kids and families, what makes Amara’s approach unique, and what we’ve learned as we’ve transformed our approach over the past decade. Our panelists were: Bre...
Shifting Amara's Programs to Best Support Kids and Families
Просмотров 862 года назад
Amara's CEO, Scarlett Aldebot-Green, and Chief Policy and Program Officer, Nicole Mazen, discuss some of the programs on the horizon for Amara to best support kids and families, including some new efforts to help family take care of family.
Celebrating Amara's 100th Anniversary
Просмотров 1282 года назад
Celebrating Amara's 100th Anniversary
The Power of Relationships: Sarah, Josh, and Samantha
Просмотров 4192 года назад
The Power of Relationships: Sarah, Josh, and Samantha
Speaking of Change: How Can Kinship Care Advance Racial Equity In Child Welfare
Просмотров 5543 года назад
Speaking of Change: How Can Kinship Care Advance Racial Equity In Child Welfare
Grayson's Story: A Foster Family and Birth Family Come Together (Short Clip)
Просмотров 1233 года назад
Grayson's Story: A Foster Family and Birth Family Come Together (Short Clip)
Speaking of Change: What Does "Openness" in Adoption Mean?
Просмотров 5913 года назад
Speaking of Change: What Does "Openness" in Adoption Mean?
What is the Inclusive Family Support Model?
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What is the Inclusive Family Support Model?
Finding Community with STAR Adoptive Parent Group
Просмотров 313 года назад
Finding Community with STAR Adoptive Parent Group
Connecting Adoptees With Their Histories
Просмотров 1893 года назад
Connecting Adoptees With Their Histories
Why The Community Supports Amara: Together We Thrive
Просмотров 573 года назад
Why The Community Supports Amara: Together We Thrive
A Network of Family: Katie & Caitlin's Story
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.3 года назад
A Network of Family: Katie & Caitlin's Story
Together We Thrive: Why Ashley Supports Amara
Просмотров 853 года назад
Together We Thrive: Why Ashley Supports Amara
Inclusive Family Support Model - In a Nutshell
Просмотров 7555 лет назад
Inclusive Family Support Model - In a Nutshell
I really enjoyed this conversation. I watched it as I was doing research on a bill for increased financial support for kinship caregivers in Colorado. But I was disappointed at the lack of insight as to why foster and kinship home services differ so widely. This disparity in services, licensure, and support is a perfect example of those inequitable and punitive roots we see across the child welfare system (and many like yourselves are trying to change). I understand dollars often provide an obstacle to services/funding available, but why wouldn't dollars for kinship families given the evidence of better outcomes be prioritized over non-relative foster care? That question is rhetorical as the response couldn't possibly be based in evidence/logic. Resolving these disparities advances racial equity because the current practice was/is rooted in white supremacist practices, to begin with. I think we need more advocates that are willing to say these things directly and to shed light on how big-picture this in within a historical and societal context. There were even times where symptoms of this historical racism such as many kinship families being unwilling to interact with the welfare system, but there was no mention that this is the result of a tumultuous history that marginalized groups have with government services and oversight. I felt as though Trey was the only one who spoke clearly about these points which is unfortunate since he is the one who is not directly involved in the child welfare system. I know this critique is somewhat strongly worded. I did not want to risk mincing my words as I think this feedback is important and given with the intention of promoting reflection and growth.
I'm surprised by the number of people who clicked on this video just to comment and show they don't understand a thing...
CPS IS A FRAUD !!! This is a child trafficking site !!! CPS IS A FRAUD !! CPS abducts steals KUDNAPED more black kids because of poverty !! Even Mexican families are both the main target of cps !! Black and brown families are targeted by cps cus of poverty and they can't fight back !! ITS ALL A SCAM !! A CON JOB !! CPS IS A FRAUD !!!
30 out of 50 king countty judges have blue eyes this is intentional a black person sent them to terrorize white people wake up its payback.
is she an actor they dont take black kids onlly white. they are racist sue them all
jamia mcrae that black social worker in this video is racist against white women they target parents by eye color, if you do not have brown eyes your rights will be terminated. Jamia McRae took my kids in 2009 and never gave them back she is racist and hates white parents shut down cps sue them all now.
I WAS IN A BLACK FOSTER HOME IN THE 90S. MANY OF THE FAMILIES I WAS RAISED BY WERE FEEDING WRONG. LOTS OF CIGARETTES TOO. THEY WERE UNDERFUNDED. NOT EVERY CHILDHOOD IS GOLD.
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Thank you, this is very good👍
U are so right it really does matter ...But! love care and security are far more important.. knowledge can be passed down thru many channels not just 1 ❤Foster parents are angels ..they come in many colours
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Great story, great results!
Hearing Sarah's mind switch had me in tears! I was cheering at the end of this video, thank you Amara for raising the bar.
Good bless you all! As a foster kid I was in the system and we do need more black foster partnes to keep these kids from going a stray
Wonderful discussion. Very proud to be part of Amara and to support these efforts.
Thanks for sharing this! I aged out of foster care and worked for the agency for 13 years in many roles but the one that was near and dear to my heart was as a PRIDE Trainer teaching foster and adoptive parents the tools they needed for success. Your message was great and so necessary. We need more people of color Black and Hispanic that do it from their heart. These children need people who care because they can feel it.
Thank you all for this wonderful, honest and hopeful presentation. As an adoptive parent and social worker, I’ve been a fan of Lori since reading her book in 2014, and have trained many families about openness in domestic infant adoption, but love the simplicity of this model! Awesome work you are doing at Amara!
Thank you so much, Susan :-)
Thank you, Susan! We are so lucky to have people like Lori, Angela, Kara and Katie in the world!
This is great!!
This is so good!
Shoutout to these niggaz They be doin a good job
America needs black Foster families as well as black adoptive parents !!!!!
They are not saying that black kids need to be with black kids and white kids need to be with white kids etc. they are just saying that for kids go are already ripped from their families, it is even more of a shock when they are placed, not only with strangers. But people of a completely different culture. Who see the world completely different than they do and probably have no clue how they see they world. That's a lot on a kid.
You hit it on the nail
Amazing to see this organization center adoptees perspectives! Many adoption agencies tend to center the adoptive parents perspectives, and not the children’s or children’s genetic parents stories.
They need more good foster parents period. What race a family is should not matter in child placement. I'd be more concerned with the quality of the foster parents versus the "color" of the foster parents. It's society that creates the stigma that each race belongs with their own race. The whole experience is traumatic for children and the bottom line is foster children need to feel safe, loved and their needs met by all people that are involved in their lives.
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Beautiful stories
She seems real sweet! Nice that she got to keep that nightlight!
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Y background is native and Yiddish . It shouldn’t matter!!
It does trust me please do your research
Do they consider white foster families?
Racist an stupid.
Yes indeed! Worldwide! Think of “Philomena!”
I ponder about the meaning of culture especially when it comes to the care of children. I understand that these kids realize that they are different but to what extent does the foster family deny their own culture? What exactly of the "black" culture do these children need? Is it just the music (that more white people listen to then anyone else). Does it boil down to a weave? Think these kids need should practice some gratefulness. These foster families take them in out of love (realizing there are exceptions to the rule). Yes - I think ALL cultures should take in kids.
I think everything you just said is naive
There’s more to black culture than hair and music. Raising black kids takes more than love and care. Parents have to teach these kids how to navigate the world as a black person due to racist policies and racist people in general. Other races don’t fully understand how to do that because they haven’t gone through the black experience. Being connected with your culture is a huge contribution to self esteem because that is one of the things that are a part of you. Culture isn’t just a tangible object but the way we operate as well(and no negative stereotypes don’t apply to that).
Summarising "black" culture down to music and weave is exactly why people with your mentality should stay far away from black children. You sound incredibly ignorant. Especially as you are referring to an ethnic group as a "culture".
I'll answer, identity is highly connected with spirituality and our higher selves. When there's that disconnect, trouble follows. Black people are about the most spiritually connected beings. There's the spiritual aspect, then there's the socio political aspect, that a black child needs to be conscious of in order for their survival.
It's important trust me. Culture is everything! The slave master broke use of are Culture and that when you lose your self. It's important that black foster kids know there Culture because they need to know how to navigate threw this world. Do research and learn and you will get a better understanding to your questions.
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beautiful family 😊😇
Thank you
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Beautiful!!
What a beautiful story! So happy for you all :)
So happy Darren got a New beginning in life. That's awesome.
my name is Amara
Beyond words! Jade's smile is worth double its weight in gold! Best of luck and all for these two!