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plan an event!
By planning a National Adoption Day event, you are helping to change the lives
of children and adoptive families forever and raise awareness about foster
children in need of permanent families. By planning an event on National
Adoption Day itself, you will help to multiply
the efforts of others like yourself in communities across the country. The
more communities joining in National Adoption Day, the greater the impact
the effort will have in the news media, which will result in many more people
learning about the importance of adopting children from foster care.
National Adoption Day has a variety of resources to help you with every step
of planning an event in your community. To begin planning your event, review
the goals and step-by-step timeline below, and then use the Toolkits provided
to plan your event and start your outreach to the media.
Please check back in the spring for information about National Adoption Day 2007.
Goals of a National Adoption Day Event
| Goals |
Ways
to Measure Success |
| Finalize adoptions from foster care |
Actual number of adoptions finalized |
| Celebrate families who adopt |
Scope and nature of celebration activities
Positive media stories on adoption
Number of people and families in attendance |
| Raise awareness and encourage others to
adopt |
Positive media stories about National Adoption
Day events |
| Build collaboration among local adoption
agencies and organizations |
Involvement of numerous adoption organizations
and other community partners in planning National Adoption Day
activities |
| Through research, learn more about families wanting
to adopt and the children waiting to be adopted, with the goal of finding
more permanent, loving homes for children in foster care |
Commission research and then broadly disseminate
lessons learned |
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