Raise awareness
Use these tools to promote foster care adoption and share the mission of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in your community.
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption information brochure
An overview of the Foundation and its signature programs.
National Adoption Day
On this day during National Adoption Month, judges across the country make it a priority to finalize pending foster care adoptions. National Adoption Day is held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
National Adoption Awareness Month resources
Promote foster care adoption in your community to help us find a family for every child, especially during National Adoption Awareness Month each November. Here are some of the ways you can help:
Reach out to your local media using these resources:
- Media relations tips
- Sample news release
- Sample letter to the editor
- Sample event announcement
- Letter to request airing of public service announcement
- Order our free public service announcements, videos and posters
- Share our Step-by-Step Guide to Adoption with potential adoptive parents
- Engage your faith community
- Encourage employers in your area to offer adoption benefits
- Participate in National Adoption Day
- Gather your family and friends to watch the CBS foster care adoption special, A Home for the Holidays
- Share the 2011 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces list
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids: A Policy Maker’s Guide
Child Trends’ five-year study of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program finds intensive child-focused recruitment model effective for longest-waiting children, especially older youth.
A Guide to Child-Focused Recruitment
The proven model from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program.
WWK Research Executive Summary
The impact of child-focused recruitment on foster care adoption: A five-year evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.
WWK Research: Achieving Successful Adoptions
Voices of prospective and current adoptive parents from the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids evaluation.
WWK Research: What Helps and Hinders Me from Being Adopted
Voices of youth in foster care from the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids evaluation.
WWK Research Technical Report: Impact Findings
The impact of child-focused recruitment on foster care adoption: A five-year evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.
WWK Research Technical Report: Program Description and Implementation
The impact of child-focused recruitment on foster care adoption: A five-year evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.
WWK Research Evaluation Summary
The impact of child-focused recruitment on foster care adoption: A five-year evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.
National Adoption Attitudes Research
The CD-Rom contains the full text of two national adoption attitudes surveys commissioned by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
The 2002 survey was conducted in cooperation with the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and established important new benchmarks about the public’s perception of adoption.
The 2007 evaulates Americans’ attitudes about foster care adoption, their beliefs about the children waiting to be adopted, their perceptions of the system caring for these children and their attitudes toward what a healthy living environment is for a child. Maximum quantity: 2
A PDF of each report is also available for download:
2002 report
2007 report
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