On Friday, November 10, at 8:30am, Waukesha County will host a National Adoption Day event to raise awareness of the more than 117,000 children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the United States. In Wisconsin, 7,000 children & youth are in foster care at any one time with 1,380 waiting to be adopted. In 2022, 32 children reached permanence through adoption in Waukesha County.