Tag Archives: Foster Care

Celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month

November is National Adoption Awareness Month.  There are many ways to celebrate adoption.  Take time each day this month to recognize, celebrate and educate others on the topic of adoption!  This calendar has 30 ways-one for each day of the month- to do this!

Adoption Awareness Month

NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH, 2014 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Every year, adoptive parents welcome tens of thousands of children and teenagers into supportive and loving families. These mothers and fathers provide their sons and daughters with the security and stability of a… (Read More)

Foster Care Adoption gets an Animated Endorsement

Public service advertisements (PSAs) featuring characters from the new film The Boxtrolls are appearing on participating television and radio stations. The PSAs direct audiences to visit theAdoptUSKids website or call our toll-free number to receive current, accurate information about the foster care system and the adoption process. The Boxtrolls is a family-event movie from LAIKA, the creators of the… (Read More)

Recharge Your Batteries

     PARC’s Upcoming Workshop! This workshop is open to all post-adoptive, pre-adoptive, and foster families! For the first time, PARC will be hosting a webinar workshop, sponsored by the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families! “Recharge Your Batteries: Self-Care for Parents & Caregivers Running on Empty” Tuesday, September 16th 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm… (Read More)

Not the Life I Expected: Parenting a Child With Attachment Disorder

Most of us didn’t go into adoption expecting to parent a child with significant attachment issues or Reactive Attachment Disorder. Even if we adopted an older child who experienced abuse or neglect, or a child from foster care, or a child from one of the many understaffed and underfunded orphanages throughout the world, we didn’t… (Read More)

Challenges Faced by Children in Foster Care

• Grief and Loss: All children who enter foster care experience grief and loss due to the separation from their biological family. This happens whether or not the child has an abusive or neglectful background. It happens even to babies, who have had nine months in utero to get used to the sounds and rhythms… (Read More)

We Are Abandoning Children in Foster Care

In 2012 in the United States, 23,439 children in foster care turned 18 and were “emancipated” or “aged out.” In simple terms, most of them were put out into the world on their own without housing, financial assistance or emotional support. Take Adrian, now 27. After being placed into foster care at 6 because of… (Read More)