Over the past 15 years the face of adoption has changed in Tennessee. The kids are older, the impact of the abuse and neglect is more severe – the scars left by emotional and physical traumas are deeper than ever
before.
For these kids, adoption begins a journey of healing. Adoption provides a forever family – a safe place for a child to face their demons – slay their dragons – all with the help of a loving family.
But all too often the adoptive family has very little understanding of the child’s history of abuse – and how this will impact them. And the family is often not prepared to provide for the complex needs of the child. The
family’s road to health and well-being is riddled with challenges and each year hundreds of families across the state turn to Harmony for the professional treatment they so desperately need.
Harmony Adoptions has redefined what treatment, support and education means to adoptive families, especially those adopting through the foster-care system. Our post-adoption services program is nationally recognized, evidence based and the most comprehensive in the country. Less than 1% of the children we work with go back into foster-care – this, compared to a national rate of 15% and higher.
What we do at Harmony works…and it makes a difference to the child, the family and the long-term health of our state.
And yet, there is still so much more we can do…Last year far too many kids came back into foster-care – these are kids we could not serve and their adoptive families gave up on them – Over 700 kids left care with no one – no plans – no future – 30% of our state’s homeless population are former foster children. 25% of Tennessee’s prisoners came from foster care – This is tragic and made more so because there is something we can do to put an end to this cycle.
The Harmony Family Center is a natural progression of our work and Camp Montvale provides the ideal setting. The property allows us to significantly increase the number of families we can reach each year. The residential adoptive family treatment program will be the first of its kind in the country – a program that keeps the family together rather than sending the child to treatment.
The facilities at Montvale would provide a place where we can train professionals in our highly successful treatment protocols. Thus our impact is felt nationally.
The rustic beauty provides a perfect place for families to learn, grow and together face their challenges…all with the assistance of our highly trained clinical staff.
Once The Harmony Family Center is developed, it will be self-sustaining – building our existing funding and public utilization of the Center.
The need for our programs will continue to grow. Each year hundreds of children begin their adoption journey – leaving foster care for their forever family. And each year hundreds of Tennessee’s precious children are left behind – waiting for a family to call their own.
Harmony Adoptions is reaching out across Tennessee to people who are concerned about the future of our children…of our families. Your support of the Harmony Family Center would make a tremendous change in the life of a child, the well-being of a family and the health of our community. You could help change the world for thousands of Tennessee children.
Won’t you please join us on this journey?
For additional opportunities to help make the dream come true at Montvale, please contact Aaron Killian at Harmony Adoptions.
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The Barn – The Barn, a program of Harmony Adoptions, is dedicated to strengthening children and families through the use of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP). EAP is an experiential therapy that integrates horses into the counseling process. We serve children who have experienced physical and emotional trauma and/or neglect and have been removed from their birth families. A child’s reaction to stress can result in behaviors that present problems for foster and adoptive parents and can become barriers to success. The Barn offers EAP to children and youth in foster care or in adoptive families. Read more…
