Partners
A coalition of national partners sponsor National Adoption Day to draw special attention to foster children waiting for permanent families and to celebrate all loving families who adopt.
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.
Established by UPS founder Jim Casey in 1976 as a source for high-quality foster care, Annie E. Casey Foundation/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.
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.
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.
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems. Created by Wendy’s® founder, Dave Thomas, who was adopted, the Foundation implements results-driven national signature programs, foster care adoption awareness initiatives and research-based advocacy efforts. To learn more, visit www.DaveThomasFoundation.org or call 1-800-ASK-DTFA.
The Freddie Mac Foundation, sustained by its endowment, is dedicated to making home a place where children and families thrive. The Foundation funds programs in the areas of stable homes/stable families; academic and career success; and foster care and adoption. Through the Freddie Mac Foundation Wednesday’s Child program in five major metropolitan areas, and the Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery, we have helped find adoptive homes for more than 1,500 children in foster care.