Welcome Them Home: How Can Resource Parents Support their Biological Children Through the Journey of Foster Care

  • Daniela Coats

  When I was around 7 years old, my parents began the journey to become resource parents. Though I had two younger biological brothers, my parents felt we could help children in foster care by welcoming them into our family. In the days, weeks, months and years that followed, I learned about trauma and began […]

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Daniela Coats

Daniela Coats has spent most of her career working in foster care and adoption. She is
currently a therapist at Be Still Counseling and Consulting in Texas. She has developed
trainings and resources for parents and professionals through With Siblings
(www.withsiblings.org). Coats is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) in Texas, and is
currently under the supervision of Suisan Walker, LCSW-S. She is passionate about serving the
entire foster family, including birth children. She is a self-identified "birth kid." Her parents
fostered when she was a child, and eventually adopted her youngest sibling. Now, Coats and
her husband have six children by both birth and adoption.

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