Response to Request from Senator Graham to CAFO
…the testimony highlights the “Permanency Center” model, which could significant enhance the full spectrum of care—from family preservation and reunification, to in-country care and local adoptions, to inter-country adoptions. It…
Orphans and Development: Broad Perspective and Narrow Focus
…local adoption and international adoption, both economic development and vaccinations. There’s no need to pit one needed response against another when both are of value. Too often, “tribes” form around…
Fresno, CA: A Vision for a “City Without Orphans”
…have seen 7 children come into our pastoral families through foster care or international adoption over the past 4 months, including our daughter. If you would have told me, in…
Amidst the Tragedy of Romania’s Orphans Hope Glimmers
…efforts, mentoring and local adoptions to international adoption. And, as George’s beautiful music reminds, when even one orphan is helped to thrive, the gifts can extend to all of us….
Compelling Washington Post Op-Ed on Orphans in Russia
…narrowly on potential problems with international adoption miss an issue of far greater importance to most Russian orphans: the reality faced by children in Russian orphanages every day. As I’ve…
BBC on the Plight of Orphans in Russia
…the article makes clear, there certainly isn’t any single solution, nor any easy ones. Shifting from government institutions to small group homes and family-based care? Local adoptions? International adoptions? Effective…