I had the pleasure of hearing Nell Bernstein speak up in Santa Fe back in 2007 (or thereabout). If memory serves, Nell had just released her book entitled All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated. I remember asking Nell if she had spent any time looking at the attachment issues surrounding children of the incarcerated. I pointed out that John Bowlby cut his teeth looking at the attachment issues that surrounded homeless youth roaming the streets of war torn Europe in the aftermath of WWII. She said that although attachment proper was not a central focus of her book, it is, nonetheless, an important topic that must be considered when looking at displaced youth. Nell asked me to send her any information I might have on attachment and displaced youth. More than likely I sent her a copy of the report (released by The Adoption Center At Bellefaire JCB in 2003) entitled Coordinating Attachment and Permanency (CAP) Project. This was the beginning of a collaboration that has been very fruitful over the years. Read More→