See beyond behavior
Ask what a child’s behavior is communicating before deciding what it means about their character.
Advocacy
Children deserve curiosity before judgment.
Shae’s advocacy centers the voices of foster youth and adoptees—especially the truths that can be uncomfortable, complicated, and necessary.
What I stand for
Change begins when adults listen differently.
Protect sibling bonds
Treat sibling relationships as meaningful attachments, not optional connections that can be casually interrupted.
Stop labeling teenagers
Young people are not “hard to adopt.” They need adults prepared to build trust without making belonging conditional.
Support healing after adoption
Permanency is a legal milestone, not the finish line. Families and young people need trauma-informed support for the years that follow.
Lived experience belongs in the rooms where decisions are made.
Policies, trainings, and services are stronger when the people most affected by them are part of the conversation. Shae partners with organizations that want to understand not only how systems operate, but how those systems feel to the child moving through them.
Her work invites professionals and caregivers to look past compliance, challenge harmful labels, and make room for both grief and hope in conversations about foster care and adoption.
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