After graduation, we were excited to hire Sharon to work in adoption preservation and she has been part of our team ever since. Building a family through adoption can present many unique challenges. Adoptive families may experience issues that differ from biologically created families in significant ways. Sharon and the adoption preservation team help families whose adopted children are experiencing adjustment issues. \u201cUsing tools like art therapy, we build relationships with our clients to help them understand that behaviors like stealing or lying are common reactions to trauma. Our team is well-equipped to help parents understand their child\u2019s attachment or trust issues, what those behaviors are an expression of and where they\u2019re coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharon has a unique way of remembering and preserving her journey of helping families. She keeps every appointment book she\u2019s had since she started working here in 1999. The books keep records of every part of Sharon\u2019s life at Children\u2019s Home & Aid, from client appointments to graduate school classes to deadlines and meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the years, the books began to pile up in Sharon\u2019s office as each appointment book was filled. \u201cIf you ask me a therapeutic reason for why I\u2019ve done this, I\u2019m not sure I can give you an answer, but it\u2019s fascinating to go back and look.\u201d Sharon\u2019s appointment books are filled with creativity\u2014drawing from her art background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The books remind Sharon of clients she might\u2019ve otherwise forgotten. \u201cThe truth is that you sometimes forget how many clients and families you\u2019ve worked with over the years. These books provide me with something tangible to look back on and say \u2018wow I did all of that!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking back at the appointment books\u2014filled with years of meetings with clients and coworkers\u2014gives Sharon more than a sense of accomplishment. They remind her of the time, hope, and energy she\u2019s spent to help clients and families take a step forward in their lives. For now, Sharon plans to keep the books in a safe place, but one day hopes to use her art background to do something more creative with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout 2018, we are celebrating 135 years of meeting every child, every family, where their need is greatest. Doing whatever it takes so children and families can thrive. We are proud of our legacy of […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"inline_featured_image":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29774,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions\/29774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightpoint.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.childrenshomeandaid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1355-768x1024.jpg\")
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