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Child Specific Recruitment Services | The Relationships

July 28, 2022 by Staff Contributor

Photo collage of waiting children and child specific recruiter

As a supervisor in Children’s Home’s foster care and adoption programs, Amy Fogel specializes in the work of child specific recruitment (CSR) which means advocating for youth who are facing

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Today's Child and Family

Family Ties

March 7, 2022 by Staff Contributor

Family Ties

Like many families, the structure of Sierra’s family is complex. Her blended family started when she became an adult foster provider to Christine who had aged out of the child

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Today's Child and Family

Enduring Love Gives Back

March 7, 2022 by Staff Contributor

Donna & Ellen

Donna and Ellen met at church more than 30 years ago and learned they had both adopted children — a daughter for Donna and a son for Ellen. That shared

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Filed Under: Today's Child and Family

Dreams, Love & Siddharth

March 7, 2022 by Staff Contributor

Adoption from India

As a child growing up in India, Vidya’s dream was to build a family through adoption. Her family moved to the Philippines when she was seven, then to Japan, and

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News, Today's Child and Family

Little Red Stocking | Elee & Aaron

November 4, 2021 by Staff Contributor

LIttle Red Stocking

For as long as she can remember, Elee wanted to adopt a child. When she became pregnant at the age of 18 and gave birth to her son, Javier, she

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Filed Under: Foster Care Adoption, Parenting, Waiting Children

Openness Makes All the Difference

October 13, 2021 by Staff Contributor

Teen Foster Care Adoption

When Brandon and Karis Heffron decided they wanted to explore adoption as a way to grow their family, they kept their options open. Wide open. “You’re asked how many children

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Filed Under: News, Today's Child and Family

A Longing to Know More

March 24, 2021 by Staff Contributor

Family photo posed outdoors near waterfall

In 1956 Lois Nelson, a 16-year-old high school junior, walked into the Salvation Army Booth Women’s Home and Hospital, a safe haven for unwed mothers, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Birth Parent Reflections, Reunion, Today's Child and Family

A Front Porch Adoption

September 1, 2020 by Staff Contributor

Just after a judge declared the adoption of their two sons was official, Britni and Karl Lane took a photograph to celebrate and record the significant moment. The parents and

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Filed Under: Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Today's Child and Family

Roger Toogood | A Legacy Built on Compassion and Common Sense

August 26, 2020 by Staff Contributor

It seems appropriate that a man named Roger Toogood believes that life is filled with opportunities “to do good.” As executive director of Children’s Home for almost 30 years, Roger

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Filed Under: Today's Child and Family

A Family’s 70 Year Journey With LSS

February 26, 2020 by Staff Contributor

Though 92-year-old Betty says she hasn’t “thought about adoption for a long time,” the ripples of how adoption touched her life are throughout her home. Photos of smiling children and

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, News

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