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Chosen (Nonprofit )

Chosen is dedicated to supporting children and youth in overcoming trauma by creating strong, stable relationships within foster, kinship, adoptive, and reunified families.

Through our clinical services and trauma training, we offer evidence-based methods to prevent disruptions and ensure lasting connections for every child.

Chosen offers the following programs for caregivers:

  • Addy: for parents of adopted children
  • Rise: for reunified birth parents
  • Family Ties: for grandparents, relatives, other kin caregivers
  • Fostering Connections: for foster families
  • Adaya: for at-risk teens 
Jenni Lord - Chief Executive Officer
Staci Thomas, TBRIĀ® Practitioner - Chief Operating Officer
Adaya
by Chosen

Our Adaya program helps youths without a permanent placement know they are valued and cherished. Our personnel coaches engage with these young people, not just as therapists, but as partners to help them build attachment and start a journey towards healing. Coaches are going to the youth, wherever their temporary placement is, to ensure they receive the trauma-responsive intervention they need and deserve.

When a placement is identified for these youth, Chosen’s staff “follow the child,” helping the transition to a family, ensuring stability and higher success rates. This essential component is critical to help youth heal in safe, loving, and permanent relationships. 

Contact us here.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Chosen’s Addy Program offers a comprehensive approach for adoptive parents and caregivers seeking to strengthen family bonds and support children with unique needs. The program focuses on understanding the trauma experienced by children while acknowledging the profound losses they have endured.

Click here to learn more about our process.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Parents who have been separated from their children need support to create a stable environment. By walking the path of healing together, Chosen empowers families to build trust. Home can become a place of safety, security, and hope.

To contact us, click here.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Fostering Connections is a program geared toward foster parents, recognizing the unique dynamics and challenges they face. In the child welfare system, simply being involved can be traumatic. At Chosen, we recognize this and are dedicated to helping children and foster families navigate the path to healing.

To contact us, click here.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Families raising other relatives’ children never expected to be parenting again. Shifting roles with birth parents and financial hardship add to the challenges. Our team helps you navigate tumultuous waters. We help build bonds of trust. We walk the path of healing together.

To contact us click here.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Chosen was founded with a single mission: to help children, youth, and families prevent and heal trauma from maltreatment through healthy relational connections.

Let us help you and your family find hope and healing. 

Click here for a list of available parenting resources.

Updated within the last 2 months.

Trauma impacts a developing brain. The resulting behavioral, academic, and relational challenges need intervention for children to grow into emotionally healthy adults. Without a deep understanding of how abuse, neglect, grief, and loss affect children, efforts will likely fall short.

Our staff, trained and experienced in using best-in-class trauma education, is passionate about sharing this knowledge with anyone wanting to serve children and adults who have experienced trauma.

To learn more or get trained, click here.


Updated within the last 2 months.

Trauma impacts a developing brain. The resulting behavioral, academic, and relational challenges need intervention for children to grow into emotionally healthy adults. Without a deep understanding of how abuse, neglect, grief, and loss affect children, efforts will likely fall short.

Our staff, trained and experienced in using best-in-class trauma education, is passionate about sharing this knowledge with anyone wanting to serve children and adults who have experienced trauma.

To learn more or get trained, click here.

Updated within the last 2 months.
Adaya
by Chosen

Our Adaya program helps youths without a permanent placement know they are valued and cherished.  Our personnel coaches engage with these young people, not just as therapists, but as partners to help them build attachment and start a journey towards healing.  Coaches are going to the youth, wherever their temporary placement is, to ensure they receive the trauma-responsive intervention they need and deserve.

When a placement is identified for these youth, Chosen's staff "follow the child," helping the transition to a family ensuring stability and higher success rates.  This essential component is critical to help youth heal in safe, loving, and permanent relationships.

Contact us here.

Meredith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9029
Updated within the last 2 months.

Chosen's Addy Program offers a comprehensive approach for adoptive parents and caregivers seeking to strengthen family bonds and support children with unique needs.  The program focuses on understanding the trauma experienced by children while acknowledging the profound losses they have endured.

Click here to learn more about our process.

Meredith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9027
Updated within the last 2 months.

Parents who have been separated from their children need support to create a stable environment  By walking the path of healing together, Chosen empowers families to build trust.  Home can become a place of safety, security, and hope.

Click here to contact us.

Meedith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9027
Updated within the last 2 months.

Fostering Connections is a program geared toward foster parents, recognizing the unique dynamics and challenges they face.  In the child welfare system, simply being involved can be traumatic.  At Chosen, we recognize this and are dedicated to helping children and foster families navigate the path to healing.

Click here to contact us. 

 

Meredith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9027
Updated within the last 2 months.

Families raising other relatives' children never expected to be parenting again.  Shifting roles with birth parents and financial hardship add to the challenges.  Our team helps you navigate tumultuous waters.  We help build bonds of trust.  We walk the path of healing together.

Click here to contact us.

Meredith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9027
Updated within the last 2 months.

Chosen was founded with a single mission:  to help children, youth, and families prevent and heal trauma from maltreatment through healthy relational connections.

Let us help you and your family find hope and healing.

Click here for a list of available parenting resources.

 

Meredith Hall Send email
(830) 743-9027
Updated within the last 2 months.