Calo is the nation’s first adoption-specific Family Treatment Center. We are national experts in adoption, attachment, and trauma. We employ Golden Retrievers to heal trauma. Our students raise, train, feed, and sometimes adopt these canines in a process we call “transferable attachment”. In this way, our students learn how to create and maintain reciprocal relationships. They learn empathy. They learn to give. They heal trauma.
Video transcript:
It's the first place mom, I feel like I'm
not different. I feel like I fit. I feel
like people get me because they're all
adopted too. From the moment they could
remember they felt different. They felt
like they didn't fit. They didn't feel
good enough and again they didn't feel
worthy. Many of our staff here have gone
through their own personal experiences
with adoption. We have parents who have
adopted children. You have adoptees there are adults now that want to give back
and help other children that have been
adopted. I remember a fairly happy
childhood but it was around the time of
adolescence that things started to
really go awry. In the womb a child gets
in a rhythm in a synchronization of his
or her birth mother. We didn't connect
that with the fact that I was adopted or
had early childhood trauma. Even though a baby might be placed into an adoptive
home really early in life there's still
profound loss. I just thought I was a crummy kid.
The parents think it's maybe conduct
disorder oppositional defiant disorder
because side by side the symptoms are
very similar.
Defiance is a big one. Need for control,
controlling your situation. Anything to
sort of numb pain as possible. It looked
really behavioral on the surface but
many of our students really at their
core are experiencing loss and they
don't know how to articulate it. I wish our
family could have benefited from the
things that Calo has so that my parents
and I wouldn't have had to wait so long
to mend our relationship. When students
come here they get the chance to explore
those exact underlying feelings behind
their adoption. They have these coaches
at their fingertips you know pretty much
24/7. Parents can call us we can help.
We can guide parents through that
process and really help them understand
what's really going on behind those
behaviors. Go get help. Get help as soon
as possible because the sooner you do
the sooner there will be healing on the
other side and there will be so many
good good
ahead. It will give your child the
experiences needed to heal their trauma.
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