RAD Reflections

Our founder, Amy VanTine, sat down with adoption author Sherrie Eldridge to share the personal story behind RAD Advocates — and why supporting parents is at the center of everything the organization does.

Misty and Jeff faced years of crisis parenting a son with reactive attachment disorder. This is the story of how they found their footing.

Cherie survived severe bilateral breast cancer, but says parenting children with reactive attachment disorder was even harder. This is what families facing developmental trauma really experience.

Forrest Lien, LCSW, has spent more than four decades helping families affected by developmental trauma find stability and healing. From this interview, recorded at NavRAD, he reflects on how listening to parents has shaped his life’s work — and how collaboration between professionals and caregivers continues to change what’s possible for children with developmental trauma disorder.

Rachael and Monte Hawkins, who run a boarding school for girls, share how training from RAD Advocates reshaped their understanding of families.

RAD Advocates began as a group of three moms of children with reactive attachment disorder at a coffee shop. Take a step into their journey.

The most shocking part about the book but, he spit in my coffee is that it's true. In the reads-like-fiction memoir, author Keri Williams li

Just like parents can't love away cancer, they can't erase reactive attachment disorder with a "good home". Yet, that is the expectation.

Sateash understands that parents can’t fix reactive attachment disorder—a serious brain disorder caused from childhood trauma—with love.

Sunnybrook Children's Home staff members learn about the complex dynamics of reactive attachment during a virtual training by the nonprofit organization RAD Advocates It's incredibly difficult to support kids with reactive attachment disorder (RAD)—the result of early childhood trauma. While many professionals do what they can to help traumatized kids, they don’t fully understand the complex and confusing disorder. As a result, they inadvertently make matters worse a lot of t

Every action creates impact. Every parent, professional and person can be a reactive attachment disorder advocate. Here's what one mom did.

Raising a child with reactive attachment disorder is incredibly difficult. But Susan Green is paving her own way, for herself and others.