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Kara Higgins, first and foremost, is a mother to six children, biological, adopted, and fostered. After adjusting to life parenting her children from hard places, Kara recognized the significant impact that trauma has on every aspect of life. Working as a midwife in a large community health center, delivering more than five-hundred babies of women who were trafficked and abused, often immigrants and refugees, she began studying and immersing herself in trauma informed care, learning all that she could to meet the needs of not only the children in her own family, but of children in local delivery rooms and Rwanda as well. She and her husband founded Imana Kids: Orphan Care Ministry, an educational sponsorship program in Rwanda with a focus on trauma informed interventions, learning, and care, setting it apart from other international orphan care programs. As founder and co-director, she believes that the only long term and viable solution for ending the orphan crisis is to provide a safe space for healing and a toolset for breaking the cycle of poverty.

Kara also trains medical students at Creighton University on trauma informed care, is TBRI (trust based relational interventions) trained in order to provide support for foster and adoptive parents, educators and healthcare workers. She has more than twenty-four years of experience as an international healthcare provider with vulnerable populations of women and orphans. She has performed speaking engagements with women’s groups and international missions’ conferences

Thanks for considering me as your next in-person or online guest speaker. I look forward to connecting, serving and encouraging you. To get connected, please reach out to kara@imanakids.org