July 4, 2009

 

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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 November 15, 2008, you will help to multiply the efforts of others like yourself in communities across the country. With each additional community that joins The National Adoption Day effort, more and more people learn about the importance of adopting children from foster care through its increased impact in the new media.

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. Register your event and use the toolkits provided to plan and start your National Adoption Day outreach.

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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