Welcome to Brave Families – a support community for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents raising children from hard places. Parenting through trauma, mental illness, and Reactive Attachment Disorder \(RAD\) is challenging—but you don’t have to do it alone.

Inside, you'll find monthly mentorship sessions, trauma-informed tools, peer support circles, expert Q&As, and encouragement for the road ahead.

I'm Ja-Net Edgecombe, your community mentor. I'm a wife of 27 years, an adoptive mom of three amazing young adults with Autism, Cognitive Disabilities, and Mental Illness. With 30+ years in education and leadership, I know the joys and heartbreaks of this journey. Brave Families was created so no parent feels isolated or unseen.

You are not alone. You are brave. And you belong here. Welcome home.