IMAGINE...

You spend the first months or years of your life in an orphanage or an impoverished village. You are malnourished and often unattended. You are spirited away to a new family in a strange land. The language is strange. The customs of the family are strange. The expectations are many.

How would you feel? You experience challenges in learning, trusting, touching, and connecting. Your new family wants to love and help you. They feel anxious and frustrated. You want to hide in a safe place.

Now BAW has a solution.

Love is Not Enough

We can’t feel what it is like to be an adopted child, living in a world surrounded by friends and family who can’t directly relate to your thoughts, feelings and fears stemming from adoption. BAW provides a community of others who “get” what it feels like to be adopted.

Does Your Adopted Child Need More Support?

Does your child:

• Show anxiety, shyness, and/or depression or explosive rage and anger?
• Struggle in school, have trouble learning new skills, or struggle to focus?
• Experience difficulty with speech, touch, sounds, smell, taste, textures and/or vision?
• Struggle to connect to others?

Do You Need More Support?

• Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed by all the various possible diagnoses and child specialists out there?
• Do you want your child to have so much fun that they may be unaware that they are experiencing ‘therapy’?

At BAW you will have the support of a team of compassionate professionals offering a variety of therapies that strive to treat the whole child.

• Receive an individualized needs assessment and personal case-managed treatment plan.
• Spend time in nature and meet an array of farm animals that will help your child learn to love and trust.

End your isolation and frustration.

Call or email BAW and receive a free, confidential phone consultation, \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 303-665-2127

We Listen. We Act. We Care.

Our team of caring professionals, assembled from throughout Colorado’s Front Range, is ready to embrace your child and family.

Our multidisciplinary team is led by Kim Gangwish, a long-time facilitator of workshops for children and adults at Colorado Heritage Camps, and a nationally renowned expert on Neural Integration.

BAW offers a unique way for adoptive children and parents to receive a multi-dimensional approach to therapeutic support while participating in fun activities at our beautiful farm setting.

Our first step is to provide you with a multidisciplinary evaluation of your child.
Information from a phone consultation with you the parent is reviewed by our core team: our Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Psychotherapist, and Neural Integration Specialist.

The length and scope of the evaluation will depend on the range of the child’s issues, and age. Your child’s case manager will then meet with you to explain the evaluation report, answer any questions, as well as to outline and discuss a treatment plan that best fits the needs of the your child and you.

Why do we emphasize expressive psychotherapies for adopted children?
Talk therapy may be of little value to the traumatized child. The receptive and expressive language regions of the brain required for talking may not have yet developed or are bypassed during traumatic experiences. In fact, when trauma is chronic, such as neglect, the brain’s language centers may become impaired. If adopted from abroad, learning another language can also sometimes be another handicap to expression.

“…the topic of wellness therapies and exploring what works and what doesn't is always on our editorial menu. We recount the success stories of parents who have employed the expressive therapies of art, movement, music and narration. These therapies have proven to be successful in assisting children to share difficult experiences and serve as great alternatives to traditional talk therapy.” Dick Fischer, Editor of Adoption TODAY and Fostering Families TODAY magazines.

We have a whole-child perspective.

Our multidisciplinary approach allows our specialists to get a broader perspective on your child’s issues and needs than they would if they saw your child one by one, and you had to inform and keep each one up to date. Each specialist gets feedback from our other specialists, allowing for continual re-evaluation of your child’s needs and progress made.

“The difficulty for most parents is in finding the best therapy and employing the expertise of an experienced practitioner who understands the importance of accurate diagnosis and application of therapies. A one-dimensional approach to therapy is too often short sighted and ends in frustration for child and parent alike.” Richard Fischer – Editor, Adoption TODAY and Fostering Families TODAY magazines.

We help you save time and money.

• By offering you a multidisciplinary evaluation of your child, we ensure that your child receives the most effective therapy or therapies for him or her, nothing more, nothing less.
• As a non-profit we offer the most reasonable rates that we can, based on a sliding scale according to income.

We help keep your child’s self-esteem intact.

Avoid all those visits to one specialist after another, which might make your child might start feeling as if there is ‘something wrong’ with him or her.

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