The power of faith and perseverance to develop relationships, even when you’re adopted.
Who is Sharon Obazee?
This community launched as a result of a vision to make use of my core competencies and experiences (faith, perseverance, adoption, career, and struggle) to help others. I’ve been blessed by God while attending Golden Hills Community Church where I learned how to develop a relationship with our Lord and with training to enhance my relationship with Savior.
I received from Professional Christian Coaching Institute, where I became even more aware of his calling on my life. This internal calling along with my work and life experience have driven my need to connect with people who want to mature and persevere.
I resonate with people who are going through difficulties. I relate because I experienced struggle during my personal life and professional career and have worked with people at all social and economic levels.
I grew up in middle class America, in a small unincorporated area in N. CA where our family symbolized diversity. We were a blended family and our parents raised five adopted children. Our outward appearance and DNA were dissimilar and we were genuinely aware.
Change became my friend because of its presence through childhood and during my path to maturity. We had babies under foster care (over 250 during my residence with adoptive parents) who needed nurturing because their mothers had terminated rights to their children. I recall looking into their eyes and wanting to cry because they didn’t have mommies. I felt more pressure to appreciate the circumstances I lived in, even though subconsciously, I realized my incomplete version of myself.
How can I serve you?
Will you allow me to help you in this journey called life; to become a complete person, not lacking in anything?
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My Life as an Adoptee
My late parents provided foster cared for over 300 children over a 30 year time span. My adoptive mother fostered children until 83 years of age. I am passionate about helping others, a skill I learned growing up.
My milestones in life have varied and I’ve experienced:
– poverty and prejudice
– childhood in a blended adoptive family
– foster care
– single parenting
– student, proud mother
– a battered wife who divorced her husband
– successful career women
– wife in a long-term marriage
– parent in the blended family
– grand parenting
– friend too many wonderful women
I was able to move on to grow and I am aware of how my relationship with God has enabled my growth, perseverance and stability. My life’s experiences, which I see by way of 20/20 vision and I can acknowledge (there but for the grace of God go I) on innumerable occasions . I feel I’m here with adoption, expectant mothers, adoptive parents for a purpose
My mother always said your father picked you! I wondered if that meant she had other babies in their beds that had caught her eye. Children’s Home Society (CHS) was a well-managed adoption agency. She told me I was performing in the crib, just jumping and trying to talk at nine months. Today CHS is a referral agency; they do not manage adoptions.
As I work with CHS to get information about my birth family and Post Adoption Center for Education & Resources (PACER) to find my family, I feel elated and anxious simultaneously . My relationship with my adoptive parents ended with my moms passing in 2001. This bridge to my birth family, under construction, will give access to my identity. Do follow my blog for updates on this journey.
My Career
Let me tell you a bit about my professional self. My professional life entailed progressive positions over a 35 year timeframe. My experience in job development and career exploration and transition started with a little known government agency. I started worked in an office after leaving full-time education to create income and feed my children as a single parent. 
My job description quickly moved from summer and to year round youth employment program. We worked primarily with disadvantaged youth, we located their first job for many this was their first job experience.
My next experience was with a small business where I secured positions for experienced professionals who wanted to progress in their income and use their ability to secure a management or use their transition skills to meet more responsibility. I moved on to another non-profit organization where I managed a team of job developers. Together we placed 100% of the training facilities attendees into proper jobs.
My long-term tenure began while employed by a Fortune 500 corporation. I began as a job developer and I placed injured workers into positions they were physically able to do. I was quickly promoted to a vocational rehabilitation counsellors.
The sales side of the same organization recruited me to find clients who were eligible for medical case management. This required influencing claims examiners to use our service. My knowledge and business acumen increased to all product lines.
I also worked at a residential facility for traumatic brain injuries patients . While in management I interacted with hospitals, medical providers, nurses and families members of traumatic brain injury population and engage my ability to work as an intermediary for all parties.
