May is National Foster Care Month
While we most definitely appreciate those of you who’ve answered the call to be foster parents ALL year, it’s important for the rest of us to understand why May is such an important month. Since its first proclamation by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, National...
Talking To Children About Coronavirus and Saving Your Sanity At Home
Friends, if you’ve turned on cable news or your social media feeds for more than 30 seconds in the past month, you might think that the world is somewhere between a Flonase commercial and the Walking Dead. Sure, we want to stay informed about the current status of the...
Change A Child’s Life: The Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit
Spring is upon us. It’s the season where colors return to our world’s pallette, cleaning gets a little deeper, and children start to see the glimmer of hope that is the end of the school year off in the distance. For children in foster care, though, it’s often hard to...
Fostering Children of Color
February is Black History Month, though, the plight of children of color within the foster care system continues every day of every year. Statistically, black children make up about 14% of the total population of Americans under the age of 18. However, they comprise...
Adoption Statistics
Adoption… Foster care… these are familiar words that evoke different responses in people. These terms are common enough to the average person that not much thought is given to them. Ask a cross-section of people on the street and many would say, “That’s being taken...
Adopting a Child Can Be Hard. Is It Worth It?
One thing that is true about adoption work is that although many stories are similar, no two are exactly alike. Each story about adopting a child is as unique as the precious children themselves. Those who work in adoption agencies are a special kind of individual....
November is National Adoption Month
Established in 1995 by a presidential order, National Adoption Month (NAM) seeks to bring awareness to the needs of the hundreds of thousands of children in need of forever families, and it also celebrates the many stories of those families who have joyfully grown...
Repairing the Breach Created by Adoption Fraud
Lots of people have reached out to us this month to ask how we feel about the recent Maricopa County indictments related to adoption fraud. Our first response is that our hearts break for the birth mothers, children and adoptive families who were impacted by this...
Adopt a Teenager from Foster Care
When it comes to adopting from foster care, the majority of people have an idea that some how, some way, there’s an endless supply of infants available for adoption. This just isn’t the case. In Arizona, there’s an overwhelming population of teenagers just waiting to...Gallery
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