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Child and Family Support.

Ready Support for Children, Parents, and Families

Nurture. Heal. Grow. Lifeline’s Education & Counseling Team believes families are God’s designed place for nurturing and facilitating health in children so they can flourish.

We exist to support adoptive families, foster families, and others with cutting-edge techniques filtered through a biblical worldview. We seek to strengthen families and, in turn, influence a child’s environment. This work is not just for a season — our goal is to empower and support a family over a lifetime — from placement, to post-placement, to permanency.

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361

Families Served

1,000+

Parents Coached

6,951

Hours of Counseling

76

Workers Trained

Online Educational Courses

The Lifeline Educational Portal offers innumerable interactive courses to help equip and empower foster and adoptive families. Included in these courses are videos, resources, and activities featuring experts in the field of child welfare – counselors, social workers, trauma therapists, and more! Topics covered include common post-adoptive or foster care challenges, attachment style, navigating sibling conflict, and understanding trauma and grief seen in children.

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360 Degree School Certification

A 360 Degree School is a school that understands the influence and impact of trauma and anxiety on a student’s social-emotional, cognitive development, as well as academic performance. This year-long training and certification equips the school with purposeful instructional tools and strategies not only connect with students, but to address the adversity they face with their academics.

A 360 Degree Certified School equips the entire school community, from administrators to teachers, students to parents, and other staff. Through five training tracks, the school is trained with the tools needed to the social-emotional and cognitive needs of the community. The certification also strengthens staff, as they create a holistic learning environment for students and work toward a common goal of growth and success.

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Resources

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Discipling Children from Trauma Backgrounds
June 15, 2021
Discipling Children from Trauma Backgrounds

Compiled by Jenny Riddle, with contributions from Traci Newell and Mark Sly When children enter homes from traumatic backgrounds, their…

Back to School in a Pandemic
August 4, 2020
Back to School in a Pandemic

Compiled by Jenny Riddle from contributions by Lynn Beckett and Angela Mains In the middle of this pandemic, almost every…

Celebrate Father’s Day
June 19, 2020
Celebrate Father’s Day

God’s Word is clear about the influence and value of a father in the life of a child. We are…

Felt Safety… Right Now?
May 28, 2020
Felt Safety… Right Now?

Lifeline Family Counselor speaks on how parents can help their children feel safe.

Too Much Togetherness?
May 28, 2020
Too Much Togetherness?

We are all spending A LOT of time together now. Is your family struggling with “too much togetherness?” Whitney White,…

Response to the Unexpected: Siblings
April 28, 2020
Response to the Unexpected: Siblings

  Mutual hardship can bring either disharmony or unity.   Alexandre Dumas in “The Three Musketeers” wrote, “All for one…

Response to the Unexpected: Attachment
April 21, 2020
Response to the Unexpected: Attachment

 The recommended and mandated safe responses to the novel coronavirus require most of us to veer out of our…

Response to the Unexpected: Parenting
April 14, 2020
Response to the Unexpected: Parenting

Although sheltering in place can bring many positive opportunities to our homes, the unpredictability and stress of the situation can…

Educational Tip for at Home: Sensory Development
April 11, 2020
Educational Tip for at Home: Sensory Development

At the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, gave the Lifeline…

Response to the Unexpected: Behaviors
April 7, 2020
Response to the Unexpected: Behaviors

  In Birmingham, Ala., spring is in the air (and so is coronavirus disease 2019). Our daffodils are blooming, the…