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About Our Partner
National Adoption Month is an initiative of the Children's Bureau developed in partnership with AdoptUSKids.
What is AdoptUSKids?
AdoptUSKids is a multifaceted national program designed to raise public awareness about children in foster care who need families and to assist States, Territories, and Tribes in the recruitment and support of foster and adoptive families for children in public foster care.
Spotlight On
2011 National
Adoption Month Capacity Building Toolkit (PDF - 3,000 KB)
AdoptUSKids (2011)
AdoptUSKids projects include:
- National photolisting of children waiting in foster care for adoptive families at adoptuskids.org
- Electronic media services that include:
- YouTube channel
- Online best practice resources for child welfare professionals
- State-specific information for both families and professionals
- The National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids, which provides training and technical assistance to States and Tribes on issues related to recruiting and retaining foster, adoptive, concurrent, and kinship families.
- National multi-media campaigns to recruit families for children in foster care waiting to be adopted.
- A cadre of trained media spokesfamilies consisting of successful adoptive families from every U.S. State.
- Parent respite program, which awards annual mini-grants to parent support groups to develop customized, sustainable respite models.
Find out more about AdoptUSKids at: http://www.adoptuskids.org/about/aboutCollaboration.aspx
About the families depicted on this site
The photos featured throughout this website section and in the National Adoption Month posters in English and Spanish include real adoptive families who serve as media spokesfamilies for AdoptUSKids. Read the stories of two of these families on the AdoptUSKids website:
Read more family stories about adoption on the AdoptUSKids website.