Facing Trauma with Truth 2014
Adopt Salon Conference was a great success!
Mayor Eric Garcetti honors
Celia Center with a certificate
“As Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, and on behalf of its residents, I am proud to commend Celia Center’s “Facing Trauma with Truth Conference.” A healing conference that aims to provide pre and post-adoption support, psycho-education, and bridge compassion between all members within/without the adoption and foster care community, positively impacts the lives of many Angelenos. I wish Celia Center continued success as they support families through the tough but rewarding process of foster care and adoption.”
From Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. became the Executive Director of the Celia Center, Inc. Founded July 16, 2011.
Jeanette was inspired in 2007, after working for five years, as a Foster Care Social Worker and Psychotherapist, with the agency, Southern California Foster Family Agency, now named, Extraordinary Families. She went on maternity leave, became a mother, and started a private practice working with families connected by foster care and adoption, she named Yoffe Therapy. In 2009, she could see foster and adoptive parents did not understand the foster care experience, let alone the adoptee experience. It was then, that she started the Adopt Salon Support Group, to bring adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents together to bridge compassion and understanding with the vision to create as many of these services as possible for the Los Angeles Community, those including mental health conferences, arts festivals, and wolf healings. Thus creating a place called Celia Center, named after her first-birth mother, Celia, whom she had reunion with in
Jeanette’s desire to become a child therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system in New York City. Her personal experience has informed her education and provided insight into the unique stresses involved with these issues. Because of Jeanette’s life experience she can more easily connect and relate to the children and teens she works with. She is an exceptional child-care worker who is dedicated to helping each of her clients reach their full potential through mental health therapy and make the difficult journey from despair towards resiliency and hope.
Listen to her One Woman Play, “What’s Your Name, Who’s Your Daddy?” written in 1999, which inspired her to leave the theater and become a professional in the field. Listen HERE
