Announcing Our New Podcast! 

ADOPTION MATTERS

Available March 6, 2024 on YouTube

Available March 20, 2024 wherever you get your podcasts

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ADOPTION MATTERS is a podcast with real people sharing real stories and getting real about adoption from all three perspectives of the adoption triad.


Join co-hosts Kim Noeth, a birth mother, Sharon Butler-Obazee, an adoptee, and Sally Ankerfelt, an adoptive parent as we explore difficult topics and share frank conversations guided by our commitment to truth-telling and truth-seeking.  In each episode we discuss important issues using adoption attuned principles to help us navigate even the most sensitive topics with grace and respect. Together, we model courageous communication, and help create a community where anxiety can be reduced, and mutual understanding can prevail. Whether you are an adoptee, a birth parent or adoptive parent, or a member of the adoption constellation, we are excited to share our stories, insights and support. 

Premiere Adoption Matters Podcast Episode: Growing Intentional Families Together 2024 Shaping the Future Award Recipient! 

Shaping the Future Award

Growing Intentional Families Together announces the creation of its first Shaping the Future Award to acknowledge the efforts of individuals and organizations committed to encouraging dialog across the adoption constellation. Our adoption coaching firm believes that a fuller view of adoption complexity grows a more complete picture, strengthens relationships and honors the individual’s personal experiences.

We award the 2024 Shaping the Future Award to

Isaac Etter

for his efforts on behalf of transracial adoptees to grow communication, nurture understanding, and further ADOPTION ATTUNED PARENTING PRACTICES, policies, and education within adoptive families and the adoption community.

Isaac Etter has a deep passion for innovating in the adoption and foster care space. He was adopted transracially as a toddler. Isaac began his advocacy work by speaking and leading trainings for adoptive and foster parents. He believes it is essential for families to talk about adoption and race honestly, openly and regularly. Isaac asserts that he wants to show parents how to help adoptees “grow up feeling seen and valued for all the aspects of their identity.”

Now a sought-after speaker and presenter, Isaac reaches out to others in the adoption constellation as a way of better serving the needs of adoptees, especially those transracially adopted.

Isaac is also the author of A Practical Guide to Transracial Adoption and the host of the podcast Inside Transracial Adoption. Both reflect Isaac’s core philosophy that “when parents are equipped, children are empowered, families thrive.”
Since 2010, Growing Intentional Families Together and its certified coaches have dedicated themselves to meeting the needs of the adoption constellation. We acknowledge the complex reality of adoption and recognize the need for a Tri Position Framework that reaches across the adoption constellation. Isaac’s work is a wonderful example of that outreach and aligns with our mission.

Growing Intentional Families Together Team

All of our coaches are certified, professionals who graduated from an International Coaching Federation accredited coaching program and are committed to coaching through a trauma-informed lens.  Each coach brings a wide variety of professional and life experience to support you wherever you are on your journey.

For us at Growing Intentional Families Together, our primary objective is to support and empower you throughout the adoption journey. Whether you are considering adoption, in the adoption process, or raising an adoptive family, we are here to help you make your adoption journey as successful and fulfilling as it can be.

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Testimonials

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J.K.

“Some of the benefits I received from your coaching were thoughtful conversation … and brainstorming ideas to help me get through some difficult times … I would describe the coaching experience as relevant and thought provoking. I was accountable for myself because I knew we would converse next meeting on whether or not I had followed through”

R.K.

“”[My coach] is a fantastic coach. She is able to build good rapport and has extensive technical knowledge while bringing in the softer side of issues based on actual experience. I would highly recommend her.””

J.D.

“My GIFT coach “actively listened and understood my kids as Korean Adoptees. Each week I was given an assignment to achieve prior to meeting again. If I was unable to follow through on the assignment, we discussed my obstacles and challenges. [My coach] has a direct approach of continually challenging me by taking small steps toward my initial goal and eventually achieving it.”

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