Carolyn Cochran, M Ed.
I have been very fortunate to always have been able to do
work I love. It was fulfilling, challenging, and exciting to
teach in rural Alaska for 20 years and in Washington for
seven years. I loved teaching middle and high school special
education to behaviorally disturbed and emotionally
handicapped youth for 20 years. When I retired from teaching
in Kenai, Alaska, it was an easy transition into working
with the State of Alaska in the early 1990s to begin the
process of finding permanent homes for foster children in
State’s custody. I began doing homestudies in 1993. I have
greatly enjoyed flying around Alaska meeting families and
helping children find permanency and have some great stories
to tell!
 Heritage and I have been working together since the time I
began doing homestudies, and I continue to greatly
appreciate the agency’s integrity, skill, knowledge, and
support for staff and families. My husband and I moved to
Anacortes, Washington, in 1996 so that we could be closer to
our children and grandchildren, and we are happily settled
into a 100+ year old house with beautiful flower gardens. I
continue to fly to Alaska periodically to do Heritage
international homestudies and State of Alaska adoptions and
guardianships. In the past five years, I have worked in the
Puget Sound area, as well, with families adopting
domestically and internationally with Heritage. So the
Heritage folks are very dear to me – we’ve worked together
with lots of wonderful families through the years. And the
adoptive families with whom I have worked over the years are
likewise very dear to my heart and I feel fulfilled and
grateful to know that so many children have found wonderful
forever families.
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