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Study Shows “Child-Focused Recruitment” Finds Families for Youth in Foster Care
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (DTFA) champions a host of efforts to find permanent, loving families for children waiting in foster care. A recent, independent study of DTFA’s work...
Kelly Rosati’s New Book, WAIT NO MORE
This blog often highlights the tremendous need to speak more openly about the way beauty and pain that so often come together as we love the orphan. A book released...
Reps Michelle Bachman and Karen Bass On Foster Care in US News & World Report
U.S. News and World Report this week carries a thoughtful encouragement to Americans to consider adoption from foster care. It rightly describes, “Though the process of adoption is not always...
States Increasingly Looking to Churches as Vital to Aiding Foster Youth
A few weeks ago, I spoke with a man who worked with the foster system in Maine. He explained that the state government was making serious efforts to partner with...
Foster Care Issue at Forefront of Religious Liberty in America
Foster care and the adoption of foster youth increasingly stand at the center of highly-charged religious liberty debates in America. Our friend Stanley Carlson Theis leads the Institutional Religious Freedom...
Moving Video from Oklahoma State-Church Partnership to Find Kids Homes
As described in a previous post, the State of Oklahoma and many Oklahoma churches are partnering in an ambitious new effort to bring the number of waiting children in the...