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National Adoption Day / National Adoption MonthNovember is National Adoption Month
Today, more than 123,000 foster care children in the United States are available for adoption. They are waiting for a loving family to step forward and open their hearts and homes to adopt them. You can help. Help spread the word about the joys of foster care adoption by ordering your free Foster Care Adoption Awareness Toolkit.
 The Toolkit includes everything needed to conduct a simple local campaign, including:
• Ideas for events and awareness activities for all: individuals, organizations, professionals and the faith-based community
• Two 11"x17" posters that urge people to consider foster care adoption
• "A Child is Waiting: A Step-By-Step Guide to Adoption" - a user friendly, informative and resource-rich guide to foster care adoption
• Foster care adoption facts
• Media templates on CD-ROM (news releases, fact sheets, event announcement)
• Camera-ready print public service announcements
• Samples of television and radio public service announcements that can be tagged locally with your organization’s name
• Two new publications: A Step-By-Step Guide to Post-Adoption and Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly.
 National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 123,000 children in U.S. foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. On National Adoption Day an unprecedented number of courts and communities across the nation will come together to finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care and to celebrate all families who adopt. A coalition of national partners sponsors National Adoption Day: The Alliance for Children’s Rights, Casey Family Services, Children’s Action Network, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, and Freddie Mac Foundation. Celebrated in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, more than 350 events are held each year throughout the country. Since its inception ten years ago, a total of more than 25,000 children have been adopted from foster care on National Adoption Day.
National Adoption Day 2009
The Foundation's Executive Director, Rita Soronen, was a guest speaker at the National Adoption Day ceremony at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), hosted by HHS Secretary Sebelius. Read the news release.
To learn more, visit www.nationaladoptionday.org.
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