Everyone

Everyone can support foster care adoption and National Adoption Day. Here are different ways you can make a difference.

Support National Adoption Day by volunteering for a National Adoption Day event in your area. For a listing of events near you, click here.

Be an Adoption Advocate

Promote foster care adoption in your community during November's National Adoption Month and all year long with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption's free Foster Care Adoption Awareness Toolkit. The toolkit is the ideal resource for adoption agencies, civic and faith-based groups, corporations, educators and others. It provides ideas for awareness activities, media campaign resources, foster care adoption facts and a call to action. To order your free toolkit and other resources, visit www.davethomasfoundationforadoption.org.

Consider Adoption

Adopting a child is a wonderful and rewarding experience. Adoption is a permanent, legal transfer of all parental rights from one person or couple to another person or couple. Adoptive parents have the same rights and responsibilities as parents whose children were born to them. There are many resources available to those considering adopting a child.

There are a lot of myths and stereotypes about adopting children from foster care. Read our fact sheets to learn more about adoption.

The NAD Coalition supports the Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery and other Heart Galleries around the nation. For more information about the Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery in Washington, DC or to find a child to adopt, visit www.freddiemacfoundation.org/heartgallery.

To find more information on adoption or to find a child to adopt, please visit:
Adopt America Network - www.adoptamericanetwork.org
AdoptUSKids - www.adoptuskids.org
Children’s Welfare League of America (CWLA) - www.cwla.org/programs/adoption/
National Adoption Center - www.adopt.org
Child Welfare Information Gateway - www.childwelfare.gov/index.cfm
National Adoption Month - www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/nam/index.cfm
North American Council for Adoptable Children - www.nacac.org
Wednesday's Child - www.adopt.org/wednesdayschild

For more resource materials, check out our Toolkits.