Adopt Us Kids - National Adoption Month

Did you know it would take less than one percent of the U.S. population to provide a forever family for every child in foster care available for adoption? November is National Adoption Month and we’re part of a coordinated effort between the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Ad Council, and Child Welfare Information Gateway to make the difference of a lifetime for about 130,000 children who deserve a family of their own.

 The Global Influence Campaign to help AdoptUsKids.org spread the word about November's National Adoption Month is continuing through the end of the month

 

The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States.  Funded by the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, the national photo listing website contains photos and information about children in foster care.  A national adoption public service advertising recruitment campaign was launched in July 2004 in a partnership of the Children's Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUsKids, with the goal of raising awareness of the significant number of children in this country waiting to be adopted.  New PSA's have been developed as an extension of this highly successful campaign.  The latest series of ads in this award-winning campaign target the African American community, in keeping with the effort to diligently recruit from communities representative of the children in care.  Thirty-one percent of the children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American; African American children are overrepresented in the foster care population relative to their percentage in the U. S. general population.  Because of this, African American children often wait longer to be adopted.

 

To learn more, please visit http://adoptuskids.org. 
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Thanks to: Global Influence - A Resourceful Mommy Media Network

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