Katie Overstreet
Program Director, Adoption & Orphan Care - Focus on the Family
Katie Overstreet serves as the program director for the Adoption & Orphan Care Initiative at Focus on the Family. The program’s primary objectives are to raise awareness of and recruit families for waiting kids in foster care, as well as provide post-placement resources for adoptive families. In her role, Katie is able to live out her passion for helping children as she oversees implementation of these efforts.
Through Focus’ Wait No More conferences, Katie has had the privilege of working with orphan advocates nationwide to motivate believers to take action on behalf of orphans and vulnerable children globally. To date, nearly 2,000 families have started the process of adoption from foster care.
Katie often speaks on adoption and orphan-care-related topics at conferences throughout the country, including the Life & Justice Conference, The Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit and several local church events.
Katie graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University. She and her husband, Cooper, live in Colorado Springs, CO.
Additional Resources
Adoption from All Angles Episode
Adoption: What Helps and What Doesn’t
Speaker’s Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Travel Notes
Travel is possible.
Speaking Themes
Engaging with the foster care system – what it means for families, churches, and communities; Wrapping around adoptive families; Information for young adults about how to engage now and talking about the future early