The Adoption Exchange Is Now Raise The Future
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 want to think about connections, and they want to think about their future, but they don’t want to necessarily leave or put behind them their family of origin. So, we wanted to have something that embraces their future, without necessarily saying it was all about adoption,” Arnold explained.
Raise the Future still believes …
