Leah Outten
I guide adoption and faith communities to honor birth families through gentle storytelling, compassionate understanding, and meaningful connections from a birth mother perspective.
Leah is a birth mother of 21+ years in a fully open adoption. Her unplanned pregnancies and adoption experience at sixteen years old propelled her into resilience and cultivated the passions she works within today. Leah holds a BA in English and has been writing for over twenty years. She is an established freelance writer and speaker, with her story being featured on national platforms including Focus On The Family, BraveLove, Her View From Home, and The Epoch Times. Using her personal and professional experiences working within the adoption and faith community, she aims to help educate on the beautiful complexity of open adoption, provide resources to help others have healthy adoption relationships, and offer hope for those walking through unexpected places. Her memoir “The Sixteenth Year” was published in 2023.
Leah is a birth mother of 21+ years in a fully open adoption. Her unplanned pregnancies and adoption experience at sixteen years old propelled her into resilience and cultivated the passions she works within today. Leah holds a BA in English and has been writing for over twenty years. She is an established freelance writer and speaker, with her story being featured on national platforms including Focus On The Family, BraveLove, Her View From Home, and The Epoch Times. Using her personal and professional experiences working within the adoption and faith community, she aims to help educate on the beautiful complexity of open adoption, provide resources to help others have healthy adoption relationships, and offer hope for those walking through unexpected places. Her memoir “The Sixteenth Year” was published in 2023.
Navigating Open Adoption Through The Years
Format: 90 minute virtual informational session
This program is perfect for:
- prospective adoptive parents in the home study process
- adoption professionals
- adoptive families who have adopted and wondering "now what?"
The audience will leave with:
- knowledge of what to expect in adoption relationships from birth into adulthood
- insight from a...
