Did You Know It Is National Adoption Month?

I count myself and my children among the blessed in this world. We all have a roof over our heads, food to eat, some extras along the way, and most importantly, a family that loves us and is there whenever we need them. Sadly, not every child grows up with even the most dysfunctional of family units. There are thousands upon thousands of children, waiting in foster care for a family to call their own.

November is National Adoption Month, and the Global Influence Network (formerly Momfluence) is partnering to spread the word about AdoptUsKids.org, a group which works to help find real families for children who are waiting in foster care for a permanent home.

The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive
families with waiting children throughout the United States. Funded by the
Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, the
national photolisting website contains photos and information about children
in foster care. A national adoption public service advertising recruitment
campaign was launched in July 2004 in a partnership of the Children’s
Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUsKids, with the goal of raising awareness
of the significant number of children in this country waiting to be adopted.
New PSAs have been developed as an extension of this highly successful
campaign. The latest series of ads in this award-winning campaign target the
African American community, in keeping with the effort to diligently recruit
from communities representative of the children in care. Thirty-one percent
of the children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American;
African American children are overrepresented in the foster care population
relative to their percentage in the U.S. general population. Because of
this, African American children often wait longer to be adopted.

If you would like learn more about AdoptUSKids, please take some time to visit their website. Take a look at the kids nationwide in need of homes, or search for children in your area that are in foster care. Or join us on Twitter, Tuesday, November 10th at 2 PM EST, for a Twitter event with representatives from the agency.For more information about the Twitter Party, read this post.

This campaign is brought to you by Global Influence, the former Momfluence network.