Kim Stevens is an adoptive parent who has dedicated her personal and professional life to improving the lives of adoptive, foster, and kinship families.

Kim recently retired from her position as program manager for Families Rising (formerly NACAC). Kim trained families and professionals across the US and Canada and developed curricula on key topics related to resource family well-being. 

In her 29 years of child welfare work, Kim has provided training and consultation on child welfare, foster care, adoption, parenting, positive youth development, advocacy and leadership, trauma and recovery, and youth permanency issues both nationally and internationally. Kim has been a key partner on innumerable state and federal projects across the nation, including AdoptUSKids, QIC-EY, and NTDC. She has also been involved with countless organizations, including the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and Generations United.

As a white adoptive mom to BIPOC children, she has committed herself to advocacy efforts addressing disparity and disproportionality in child welfare practices and to ensuring that, when BIPOC children are placed in white families, they are instilled with a positive sense of racial identity. She has routinely worked in partnership with BIPOC people with lived experience in developing and delivering training on issues related to transracial adoption.

The Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York is so excited to have Kim Stevens retuning to our  Conference this May!