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Child Specific Recruitment Services | The Relationships

July 28, 2022 by Staff Contributor

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

Family Ties

March 7, 2022 by Staff Contributor

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

Adoption from India

Dreams, Love & Siddharth

March 7, 2022 by Staff Contributor

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

Two dads and son sitting on porch, one dad with arms around family

Supporting an Organization That Puts Kids First

April 27, 2021 by kristina berg

Seven years ago, Tom Ewald and Joe Thom took their first step toward becoming parents by contacting Children’s Home. They were looking for a referral to an LGBTQ-inclusive adoption agency.

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

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Speaking Out on Anti-Asian Racism: An Adoptive Parent’s Perspective

April 8, 2021 by Guest Contributor

There is no way around it: adoption is a complicated life journey. It has brought our family immeasurable love and joy but has also carried corresponding challenges—none more imposing than

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, News

Tour Korea: A Dad’s Perspective

October 26, 2020 by Guest Contributor

My wife Susan, and 7-year-old daughter Amanda went to Korea in the year 2000 to pick up our daughter and Amanda’s new baby sister—Marisa. In the Summer of 2019, Marisa

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News

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

How Tour Korea Changed My Life

February 11, 2020 by Guest Contributor

My name is Kelsey, I’m 23 years old and I was adopted when I was four months old. When I was younger, my family and I would go to Korean

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News

The entire family, many of whom were adopted from foster care, smile in front of a lake.

Adopting from Foster Care Requires Love, Education & Support

December 26, 2019 by Staff Contributor

Connie has a pretty simple answer to the question, why did you adopt? Her response, “We have big hearts and we have big hope.” Over the last 25 years, she

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care Adoption, News

A brother and sister, both adopted through infant open adoption, smile with their arms wrapped around each other.

Opening Up to Open Adoption

November 29, 2019 by Staff Contributor

When Wendy and Ben started their adoption process, they could not imagine what their futures held. “I could not believe what becoming a mom meant. I could not love our

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News

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