Shaleigh Schneider is the Florida Program Manager for Chosen. She joined the Chosen team in May of 2020 as a Care Manager. She is a graduate of Liberty University. She is a TBRI Practitioner and A Making Sense of Your Worth Facilitator. She is certified in Trauma Competent Caregiver and trained in Motivational Interviewing.

Shaleigh has spent countless hours walking alongside and serving struggling biological, kinship, foster and adoptive families. She enjoys working with families both virtually and in person. She appreciates the opportunity to coach families on how to navigate parenting children from hard places in a trauma-informed, trauma-responsive way. Shaleigh also enjoys training groups of parents and professionals in trauma-responsive approaches. She desires to help families not only survive but thrive.

Shaleigh and her husband have six children, four of which were adopted from foster care. Biological family relationships are an important part of her family’s story. She has worked hard to grow and maintain these connections. She loves teaching other foster and adoptive families how to do the same.