Deb Schugg has more than 30 years of experience working with families of vulnerable youth. She has extensive experience offering individualized, trauma-informed coaching to adoptive families in crisis and training professionals who work with adoptive families throughout the nation. Deb is a Family Coach and Trainer at Kinship Center, as well as a Senior Consultant with the National Center on Adoption and Permanency. Deb is the mother of 8 children from culturally diverse backgrounds, 7 of whom were adopted as sibling groups from the foster care system.