News about adoption through foster care
Have you ever considered it? It changes/saves lives. Children age out of foster care in our country and have no one. No one. Life is difficult enough without someone to call family. A child who ages out of foster care might get himself arrested to have somewhere to sleep […] HHS’ Administration for Children and […]
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Last week Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced that, for the third year in a row, Alabama reported a record number of foster care adoptions. According to a news release, there were 814 foster care adoptions in Fiscal Year 2020, which is an all-time record for Alabama. That number breaks last year’s record of 731 adoptions. […]
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“I understand how they feel,” Carter said. “I understand what they went through, so it really touched me. I was already thinking about adopting all of the kids but when I saw them crying, I was like, ‘Ok, I’m going to take all five to keep them together.” When he was 12, Robert Carter went […]
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Hallmark actress and 2020 Movieguide® Awards Gala Host Jen Lilley announced the adoption of her son Jeffrey. The foster care advocate shared the good news on Instagram. “I have loved this little one since his momma’s first sonogram,” Lilley captioned the post. Lilley and her husband, Jason Wayne, previously adopted Jeffrey’s brother, Kayden. “Words cannot […]
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A district court this week issued a temporary injunction protecting a faith-based adoption provider from being shut down by the state of New York for its policy of only placing children with a married mother and father. U.S. District Court Judge Mae D’Agostino granted the injunction Monday, saying the state had shown evidence of hostility […]
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Kelli Dabek, a nurse, lives in Ballston Spa with her two college-aged daughters, Alexa and Hayley. She decided to extend the family to four members by adopting Jashia. Kelli brought him home 2-years ago after he was thrust into the foster care system after his biological mother unexpectedly passed away. Kelli and the family have […]
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The Adoption Exchange started in 1983 as a way for case workers to work together across counties and jurisdictions, to share information on children in foster care, to create the best possible outcomes for them. “Sometimes children in foster care don’t necessarily want to think about adoption in the same way that we do. They […]
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In the documentary Unadopted , a young man who has aged out of foster care describes a plight common to all too many. It is hard not to admire Noel Anaya. The 22-year-old narrator of the short documentary film Unadopted, which was released last week on YouTube, aged out of the foster-care system in California […]
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INDIANAPOLIS — State and federal officials say Indiana is the top state in the nation for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care. Gov. Eric Holcomb says that in fiscal year 2019, nearly 2,500 Hoosier children were adopted through the Indiana Department of Child Services. Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson of the U.S. Administration […]
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The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were able to find adoptive homes, according to new federal data released Monday. The annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services counted […]
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