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The Alliance for Children's
Rights is Los Angeles’ only free legal
services organization devoted solely to helping children
living in poverty
and foster care. The Alliance’s mission is to ensure
children get the support and services they need to become
healthy, productive
adults. Since 1992, The Alliance has worked together with the
Los Angeles Juvenile Court and the Department of Children
and Family
Services to expedite and increase the number of children adopted
from Los Angeles foster care. The Alliance’s Foster
Children’s
Adoption Project combines (1) public education, (2) free legal
services to finalize adoptions, and (3) pre- and post-adoption
legal and social services for children and their families,
such as assistance obtaining health services, adoption assistance
benefits, and independent living services. The Alliance completes
nearly half of all foster children’s adoptions in Los
Angeles County each year.
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Established by UPS founder Jim Casey in 1976 as a source for high-quality foster care, Casey Family Services today offers a broad range of permanency-focused services for vulnerable children and families throughout New England and in Baltimore, Maryland. The direct service agency of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Services is committed to ensuring that every child in care has a lifelong connection to a family or caring adult. A continuum of services for children is offered from family preservation and reunification to foster care, post-adoption services, and an array of other family-based programs. Through the Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice, Casey Family Services provides technical assistance, consultation, and training across the nation.
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Formed
in 1990 by leaders in the entertainment industry, the Children’s
Action Network (CAN) is dedicated to improving the lives of
America’s children. Through extensive public education
campaigns, community-based programs and policy initiatives,
CAN uses the power of the entertainment community to increase
awareness about children’s issues and make them a top
priority in everyday life.
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The Congressional Coalition
on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization
dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands
of children in the U.S. foster care system and the millions
of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and
loving homes; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these
children from realizing their basic need of a family. CCAI
strives to accomplish its mission by serving as an informational
and educational resource to policymakers as they seek to draft
positive adoption legislation and to focusing public attention
on the advantages of adoption. CCAI works in collaboration
with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (CCA), which is
a bicameral, bipartisan caucus, with more than 190 Members
of Congress.
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Dave Thomas, an adoptee and founder of Wendy's® Old
Fashioned Hamburgers Restaurants, established the Dave
Thomas Foundation for Adoption® in 1992 to help
the thousands of children throughout the United States and
Canada who are
waiting to be adopted from foster care. The Foundation serves
as an active voice for the 114,000 children waiting for permanent
adoptive homes through its innovative national awareness campaigns;
signature foster care adoption initiatives, including Wendy’s
Wonderful Kids, Adoption Friendly Workplace and A Child
is Waiting: A Beginner’s Guide to Adoption; and grantmaking
to organizations that share our vision that every child deserves
a permanent home and a loving family. In collaboration with
national and local adoption, funding and policy partners, the
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption works to assure that adoption
through the foster care system is streamlined, affordable and
accessible to any family wanting to adopt.
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Created by Freddie Mac in 1991, the Freddie Mac Foundation is dedicated to making a home a place where children and families thrive. As the largest corporate funder in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region, Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac Foundation have invested nearly $348 million in organizations serving the community. The Freddie Mac Foundation has made finding permanent, loving homes children in foster care one of its highest priorities. Our Wednesday's Child programs, in partnership with a local television station and adoption agency, operates in Washington, DC, New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and has help those city's hardest-to-place foster children find adoptive homes through a weekly televised feature during the evening news. Since inception, the Freddie Mac Foundation's Wednesday's Child programs have helped more than 1,400 foster children find their forever family. In addition to funding support for adoption and foster care nonprofits throughout the Washington, D.C. region, and funding of national organizations supporting permanency, the Foundation also sponsors a Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibit of 48 compelling portraits of foster children who are in need of adoption and has hosted a highly successful adoption expo, the first in the D.C. region.
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