Our mission is to strengthen foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating evidence-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training. Our vision is that every child has a family who understands their unique strengths and challenges and is equipped to help them thrive.
On-demand Learning
Cohort Learning
Turn-key Curriculum
Expert-based Resources
Podcast
From Listening to Launch: How We Build Effective Programs
For new programs, Creating a Family follows a 6-step process that includes these steps: listen, create, pilot, evaluate, improve, and distribute. Throughout this process, we collaborate with trusted partners across the field so our work reflects both current research and the real-world needs of the families and professionals we serve.
The People Who Help Bring Our Mission to Life
Linda Fiore serves as Executive Director of Creating a Family, bringing more than 20 years of leadership in adoption and family services and a deep commitment to strengthening adoptive, foster, and kinship families.
The impact of Creating a Family is made possible through the shared commitment of our partners, who stand with us in strengthening families and communities.
Our Impact
I’m super thankful for this wonderful community! I’ve been listening to the podcast for over a year now. My husband and I started as a way to learn more about adoption. This past summer we started the adoption process and the home study in the fall. We were approved for adoption in our home state of NJ! We were so grateful and appreciative! We couldn’t stop mentioning Creating A Family to our case worker and the help you provided! We’re so excited for what comes next on our journey!
Pre-Adoptive Parent/Podcast Listener
Thank you for all that you do with the podcasts, courses, and resources. Adopting and parenting a child with FASD can feel so lonely and filled with unknowns but your resources have helped us so much.
Prenatal Substance Exposure Workshop Attendee
For nearly two years, we were in the planning and waiting phase of what would become an open adoption with our child’s birth family. This podcast is one that educated me on so many things – trauma and adoption informed parenting, the values and challenges of an open adoption, and the importance of listening to the stories of birth parents and adoptees. I attribute much of my understanding and intentionality of our open adoption to this podcast and others I learned about through guests on the show.
Adoptive Parent / Podcast Listener
This training was so informative and empowering, I feel it should be part of training and onboarding for all new social workers, judges and other court staff, juvenile justice, foster parents and kinship caregivers, etc. I believe making this a requirement could help prevent placement disruptions/increase placement stability and could lead to more kids getting the services and supports they need to thrive.
Prenatal Substance Exposure Training for Child Welfare Professionals Attendee
