About Salvo

Salvo was born out of lived experience.

In 2018, we adopted two biological siblings from Haiti. Like many adoptive families, we spent years navigating the adoption process—completing extensive paperwork, preparing our home, and hoping to bring children into safety and stability.

During that same time, our children were living in an orphanage that was not the safe place we believed it to be.

In the years before they came home, they endured abuse, manipulation, and severe trauma at the hands of adults who were supposed to protect them. By the time they arrived, the impact of those experiences had deeply affected their hearts, minds, bodies, and sense of safety in the world.

What we believed would be a journey of healing quickly became something very different—a fight for stability, safety, and survival for them and for our entire family.

As we began navigating behavioral crises, developmental trauma, safety concerns, and the overwhelming financial cost of specialized care, we searched desperately for help. Instead, we encountered closed doors, long waitlists, professionals unfamiliar with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and complex trauma, and services that insurance simply would not cover.

For a long time, we wondered if we were alone.

We soon discovered we were not.

Over the years, our phone became a lifeline for other adoptive parents—families describing the same realities: overwhelming needs, constant crises, financial strain, and the deep isolation that comes when few people truly understand what life with severe early trauma can look like.

Families blindsided by the reality of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and complex developmental trauma.

Families searching desperately for qualified help and financial assistance.

Families asking the same questions we had asked:

Where do we turn?
How do we find the right help?
How do we protect all of our children?
Why are families not prepared for this?

Who can alleviate the financial burden?

Again and again, we heard the same story.

And it became clear that these families were not failing.

They were simply facing challenges that no family should have to navigate alone.

Salvo exists because those questions deserve real answers—and because families deserve real support.