Sharon Kaplan Roszia

Sharon Kaplan Roszia has devoted her entire career to the field adoption and foster care beginning in 1963. She has worked in both public and private agencies, has developed and guided a private organization to meet the needs of adoptive families, and has given presentations around the globe.  She is the author of several books, and magazine articles, and has also won awards from groups such as American Adoption Congress, NACAC and ‘Angel in Adoption’ award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. She is the co-author of The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families (1993). Her decades long passion and commitment to open adoption has helped to change the field and practice of adoption.
 Sharon is currently co-authoring her next book, “The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency,” based on the construct she developed with Deborah Silverstein in 1986.  For many years, the two authors presented, developed curriculum and wrote articles based on adoption and foster care issues:
Loss
Rejection
Guilt/shame
Grief
Identity
Intimacy
Mastery/control

The Seven Core Issues creation has offered a path toward education and healing around the life long issues created by adoption and permanency. It has provided a framework for assessing, understanding, treating and naming the emotions of those touched by adoption, foster care and kin care. The Seven Core Issues in Adoption are referenced in various training and educational curriculum, internet sites, books and articles, and are often utilized and taught by professionals throughout the United States and Canada. 

Therapists, social workers and those touched by adoption have been asking for this book! Many professionals are grateful that Sharon is undertaking the writing of this book. For several months Sharon and co-author Allison Davis Maxon have been expanding and blending the core issues with the field of attachment and trauma. 



Help us launch this project to completion.
Immediate costs include web design, marketing, tools – a laptop, portable projector – and travel expenses, conference registrations and sales booth expenses.


People touched by Sharon's involvement in adoption.