Three Experts Join ATN’s Advisory Council
April 2016. The Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN), the voice for traumatized children and their families since 1995, has added three Advisors to their newly formed Advisory Council. The Advisory Council is a group of experts in the areas of Child Development, Early Childhood Trauma, Attachment/Trauma Disorders, Adoption, Trauma-Sensitive Education, At-Risk Youth and other Child […]
ATN Joins Coalition Urging Georgia to End Discrimination Against Children with Emotional Disorders
November 2015. A broad coalition of advocacy groups – including the Attachment & Trauma Network – is urging the state of Georgia to transform its separate and unequal educational program serving thousands of children with behavioral disabilities into a system that provides needed services and supports to integrate students into their own local schools. The […]
Special Education/IEPs for Children with Attachment Trauma – FREE Webinar
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 @ 12:00 pm EDT The Attachment & Trauma Network is hosting this FREE webinar will explore the hows and whys of special education for children who have Attachment Trauma (attachment disorders, developmental trauma, etc.) Melissa Sadin, M.Ed., M.A.T. and Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director will explore the steps of getting your […]
Ginger Healy
Ginger Healy MSW, LCSW started her career as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international adoption agency where she learned about developmental trauma and attachment needs in children. She is currently a clinical social worker and the director of programs […]
Adam Pertman
Mr. Pertman is president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP) a national non-profit focused on shifting child welfare policy and practice from the traditional “child placement” model to a “family success” paradigm. For the past decade, he established himself as one of the most respected and effective thought leaders in the child welfare world as the […]
Ross Greene
Dr. Greene is the originator of the innovative, research-based approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books The Explosive Child and Lost at School, and in the forthcoming books Lost & Found and Raising Human Beings. Dr. Greene served on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School for […]
Melissa Sadin
Melissa is a mother to two sons (one adopted and one bio), a wife, and a life long educator. She began her career as a high school special education teacher working in a self-contained classroom for emotionally challenged young adults. After twelve years in classrooms in all grades 2-12, she became an administrator. During her […]
Stephanie Garde
Stephanie Garde volunteered with ATN for 9 years and was a Board Member before becoming the Operations Manager in 2018. She and her husband are parents to two sons, one by adoption and one by birth. Their experience with trauma and attachment issues started when they adopted a 5 year old boy from state custody […]
Julie Beem
Julie Beem has been the Executive Director of the Attachment & Trauma Network since 2009 and an active member and volunteer since 2005. Julie lives in the Atlanta area and is the mom to four and grandmother to 3. Her youngest daughter, adopted internationally 25 years ago was the reason she found support and education […]
ATN joins Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions (FRUA), Attach-China International and INCIID to petition on capital hill
Nov 19, 2013: ATN, along with Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoptions (FRUA), Attach-China International and INCIID, jointly sent this letter to the US Representatives Langevin and Bass, along with the panelists of their November 21 “rehoming briefing” on Capitol Hill.