CELIA CENTER INC

Celia Center is a non-profit organization based in greater Los Angeles, which offers support for all Members of the Foster Care and Adoption Constellation, those including birth parents, adopted and fostered individuals, foster, kinship, adoptive, and legal guardianship families. We also educate those working in the field of child welfare, about best practices in foster care and adoption, including social workers, therapists, doctors, attorneys, nurses, and teachers. We provide a safe space for the Adoption and Foster Care community to join together to repair the losses, share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief, learn about search and reunion, and build strong lifelong bonds and connections. Our programs include: Adopt Salon Constellation Support Groups National Adoption Conferences Celia Center Arts Festivals Child and Family Programming Wolf Healings Adoption & Foster Care Continuing Education Provider Celia Center is a registered 501c3 Founded by Jeanette Yoffe, Former Foster youth and Adoptee, while searching for others in the world like herself. A transplant from New York, with a “chameleon like persona” she wrote a play about her life growing up in foster care to adoption, entitled “What’s Your Name, Who’s Your Daddy?” When she learned there were 34,000 children living in foster care, she decided to change careers from theatre performer to Foster Care Social Worker, pursuing a career in Mental Health, and working with children in the child welfare system. Soon after, she started a group private practice, Yoffe Therapy, training therapists to be Foster Care and Adoption Competent in the field, utilizing best practices in Foster Care and Adoption. __________________________________________________________________