National Adoption Month-2008

November is National Adoption Month! November is National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care. This year’s theme of adopting teens from foster care builds on the Ad Council’s new public service announcement (PSA) campaign of the Children’s Bureau, the Adoption Exchange Association, and The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. Here are some...

National Adoption Day 2008

National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National Adoption Day has made the dreams of thousands of children come true by working with courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for...

Urge Senate To Reauthorize Adoption Incentive Prog...

(rainbowmom thank you for passing this along from our adoption forums) ACTION ALERT: Ask Senators on the Finance Committee to act NOW to reauthorize the Adoption Incentive Program and help support adoption and relative guardianship Today, more than 127,000 children and young people in foster care are waiting to leave the system – for good – to join permanent families. Every day without a permanent family feels like a...

Missouri Adoption Heart Gallery

Missouri Adoption Heart Gallery coming to St. Joseph by Sylvia Anderson Donald J. is a 10-year-old boy who loves cats, dogs, semi-trucks, going to church and watching Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV. He’s much like other boys his age, except for one thing: Donald dreams of having a family. “Someone to love me and I get to stay there forever,” he told the Missouri Department of Social Services. Just looking at his sweet...

Treat Dad To Frosty And Help Children In Foster Ca...

My daughters (who we adopted through foster care) took my husband to Wendy’s for a Fathers Day frosty last year and they intend to take him again this year. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is such a great organization and is one that everyone in the adoption community should support! TREAT DAD TO A FATHER’S DAY FROSTY AND HELP CHANGE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE DUBLIN, OHIO (May 27, 2008) – Forgo...

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Announces Top ...

(Dublin, OH – May 1, 2008) It’s the list that prompted policy change. After the first Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in America list debuted in 2007, more than 50 organizations nationwide established or enhanced their adoption benefits for 2008. As a result, employers who made the top 100 list released today by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption offered more robust adoption benefits packages this year to make it....

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Transracial A...

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute issued a 58 page report of transracial adoption. Basically they want to adequately prepare white families before they can adopt black children and they want to seek out and recruit more black families to adopt black foster children. I see two issues here…… 1) I don’t care what color you are, unless you live under a rock how could black families not know that black...

Keeping In Touch With Former Foster Parents

I’ve blogged about the great relationship we have with our children’s former foster parents. They’re such great people and we get together with them a couple of times a year. Becoming a foster parent is usually a decision someone makes because they want to help children in need. The foster care system is not without it’s faults and problems, but they have helped a lot of children, including my own...

Adoption Connections

When my three children were in foster care (’99-’03), there were two other foster children living in the home with them. One of them was a boy a year older than my youngest. We remain friendly with their former foster parents and still see them a couple of times a year. About six months after we finalized their adoption, Pat (their former foster mother) called me to say that the other boy was starting placement...

May Is National Foster Care Month

AMERICANS CALLED ON TO ‘CHANGE A LIFETIME’ FOR OVER HALF A MILLION U.S. YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE May is National Foster Care Month; Partnership Marks ‘20 Years of Caring’ Over 513,000 American children are in foster care because their own families are in crisis and unable to provide for their essential wellbeing. Like all young people, youth in foster care deserve and benefit from enduring, positive relationships with...

15 Questions To Ask Before Adopting Older Children

Adopting older children is not for the faint of heart. I have three children that we adopted at the ages of 5, 8 & 11 and if anything, it’s never boring. Linny, the co-administrator at our adoption forums compiled a list of honest, informative questions to ask before you adopt an older child through the foster care system. “My dh and I have adopted seven children to date. However, our ‘forever...

Foster Care Video from the Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation does wonderful work in raising awareness of the need for families for children in foster care. Related Tags: foster care, older child adoption Share Tags: foster care, Older Child Adoption Related posts Wendy’s Raised Over $1 Million for Adoption (2) Urge Senate To Reauthorize Adoption Incentive Program...

29 Adoptions in Seattle Finalized on National Adop...

Court finalizes 29 adoptions By PAUL NYHAN P-I REPORTER Most parents meet their children in the delivery room, a few even earlier in their dreams, but Kymberli Nelson met her daughter Maci in the emergency room. Three years ago, a foster care coordinator called Nelson to ask if she would take on the severely malnourished baby girl, though only if Maci survived the night. Nelson didn’t hesitate, driving her Cadillac to...

My Children’s Former Foster Mother

For Wordless Wednesday: My 12 year old, with her former foster mother Pat. She’s holding one of Pat’s current foster children. This photo was taken at the birthday party of my childrens former foster brother, who was adopted the year after we adopted our three. Yes, we’re like one big happy family. Share Tags: foster...

Wendy’s Raised Over $1 Million for Adoption

…and my children were part of it. My daughters, adopted through foster care, took their dad to Wendy’s on Fathers Day for a Frosty to support this wonderful cause. I think Dave Thomas would be proud. News Release 6.20.2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM WENDY’S INTERNATIONAL CONTACT: Bob Bertini 614/764-3327 WENDY’S CUSTOMERS CELEBRATE FATHER’S DAY WITH A FROSTY; RAISE MORE THAN $1 MILLION FOR THE CAUSE OF...

Support the Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation-Buy A ...

Wendy’s is hosting something called “Father’s Day Frosty Weekend.” On June 16 and 17, participating Wendy’s restaurants across the country will donate a minimum of 50 cents from every Frosty product sold to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, which fills a critical gap by funding and supporting full-time foster adoption recruiters in all 50 states. Regular people can help out a great cause just by heading to...

May is Foster Care Month

Over 513,000 American children are in foster care because their own families are in crisis and unable to provide for their essential wellbeing. Like all young people, youth in foster care deserve and benefit from enduring, positive relationships with caring adults. Now is the time to get involved. Join America’s leading child welfare agencies, advocates, experts and foster care alumni as they come together to address...

Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is close to my heart because my own children came to us through a foster care adoption. They help bring awareness to foster care adoption through programs such as “Adoption-Friendly Workplace” and their annual television special ‘A Home For the Holidays’ and From their site: …dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000...

Adoption Options

Adoption Options At-a-Glance : A Companion Guide for Families Year Published: 2003 This guide focuses on one way to think about how choices in adoption may flow from one another: There are two types of adoption: domestic and intercountry. Domestic Adoption: Agency Oversight: Agency oversight varies from licensed and accredited agencies to unregulated facilitators. Voluntary Surrender or Termination of Parental Rights (TPR):...