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DeannaMarie Wallace
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Meet DeannaMarie:
DeannaMarie Wallace, along with her husband, Randy, began foster parenting in 1979, when their birth sons were ages one and five. Since then, they have opened their home to over one hundred children and young ladies and have adopted nine children. Six of those children were adopted through the Washington, Oregon and Hawaii foster care systems, while three were adopted in Japan. The Wallace family served as missionaries in Japan for seven years, where they helped establish a crisis pregnancy counseling ministry and an international adoption ministry.
Since 1997, the Wallaces have lived in Hawaii, where they have established HOPE INC (In The Name of Christ), a faith-based, licensed, non-profit foster care/adoption agency. HOPE INC recruits and trains families who choose to adopt abused and neglected children from the Hawaii Child Welfare System. The Wallaces’ adopted children, as well as the children HOPE INC places in other families, are children with varying degrees of attachment deficits.
The abuse, neglect, parental substance abuse and birth trauma, such as prematurity and other unavoidable early childhood trauma, can cause delays in brain development and an inability to develop healthy emotions. The results of these emotional problems are challenging behaviors. The Wallaces learned through time and experience that regular parenting skills do not work with these children. Advanced Parenting for Challenging Children provides specialized skills that empower parents to help children with emotional problems and challenging behaviors heal.
Children who heal become responsible, respectful and fun to be around.
Come to Advanced Parenting for Challenging Children with DeeannaMarie Wallace so you can help your child’s brain change the way it thinks and feels. Contact DeeannaMarie to schedule an workshop in your area.
DeeannaMarie@hopeinchawaii.org
www.hopeinchawaii.org
808-230-CHILD (2443)
808-398-3089 (cell)
