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12,082 children previously featured on AdoptUsKids now live with permanent families!


 

Apply for our 2010 respite mini-grant program

We are accepting mini-grant applications through July 1 for the AdoptUsKids: 2010 Respite Program done in partnership with the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC). The program is designed to help foster, adoptive, and kinship groups and associations partner with local public agencies to set up sustainable respite care programs in their areas. Find out more

 

Featured Child

Featured Child
Albert, 14, of Alaska is in middle school and has a strong connection to his Tglingit/Haida heritage. He has been in and out of foster care since 1998 and needs a two-parent family or a single father who can provide him with a strong system of support. Learn More

Family Stories

Each month new inspiring foster care and adoption stories are featured in the words of a family and youth.


Herbert Family

Being a single father of five with a family that’s still growing, Dwayne Herbert relies on his agency’s post-adoption services to balance responsibilities between being a father and his fulltime job. Read more



Deborah

Born heroin-addicted in a federal prison and adopted out of foster care at age four, Deborah Jiang Stein struggled for years to find a sense of identity. Now an author and motivational speaker, she shares with us a poetic recount of her journey from rebellion to re-invention. Read Deborah's story




National Recruitment Campaign

Learn more about our award-winning national adoption recruitment campaign done in partnership with the Ad Council and Children's Bureau. Visit our campaign website You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be a Perfect Parent