Transitions A Gentle Approach How a "Team Approach" to Transitions can Create Success and Stability for our most vulnerable

This is the first book from Jaynee Wiebe Way. Drawing on her experiences as both a foster parent and an adoptive parent, Ms. Way is intimately connected to the art of transition. Ms. Way has been blessed to raise 2 stepchildren and 2 birth children, In 2008 She and her husband, David embarked on the journey into foster care and adoption. In 2009 her son Cohen joined her family through Foster Care and Adoption. With children aged five all the way up to the mid twenties, who have joined her family through marriage, birth and adoption, Ms. Way is faced daily with the challenges of meeting the varied needs of children who become part of our families in different ways. As a foster Parent, she has participated in transitioning several children to their forever families. Having experienced both smooth and bumpy transitions, she has come to understand the needs of children when commencing a move from one caregiver to another. When approached cautiously and with intentionality, children thrive in their new adoptive homes. When the process is initiated with little thought or understanding of the psychological needs of children, attachment injury and serious emotional wounding can be the result for our vulnerable children. These experiences have uniquely qualified Ms. Way to present the art of transition from many perspectives. She is above all a Mother; a Stepmother, Birth Mother, Foster Mother and Adoptive Mother. Her journey has taken her through grief, joy to enormous personal growth. Ms. Way is active in educating fellow Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents on issues of attachment and transition. She makes her home in Kelowna, British Columbia, with her husband David and her two youngest children. .