Announcements
Posted 3/22/2013
NPR Hosts a Discussion on the Realities of Foster Parenting
In response to a blog post titled “What Foster Parents Wish Other People Knew,” National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation recently aired a conversation about stereotypes and misconceptions that foster parents confront. With guests Michelle Burnette, a foster parent of more than 40 children over 15 years, and Dale Margolin Cecka, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, host Celeste Headlee talks about the realities of foster parenting.
Posted 3/15/2013
Addressing Misconceptions About Adopting Teens
Ampersand Families Co-Founder Jen Braun addressed common misconceptions of adopting teens in a recent interview with KFAI radio in Minnesota. She also described her agency’s outreach efforts to recruit families for teens in foster care. Those outreach efforts included a two-part recruitment training video We Interrupt: Waiting Teens Talk About Child Specific Recruitment.
Posted 3/15/2013
HuffPost Live Discussion on Transracial Adoption of Black Children
In a half-hour segment with families, adoptees, and child welfare experts, HuffPost Live Host Nancy Redd leads a discussion on how adoptive parents can prepare their black children for inevitable race issues.
Posted 3/12/2013
Lynn Moyer Named AdoptUSKids’ February Caseworker of the Month
Lynn Moyer, a social worker with Children & Families First in Wilmington, Delaware, is our February Caseworker of the Month. Moyer, an adoptive parent herself, uses her first-hand experience of going through the adoption process to provide child-specific recruitment services to children on her caseload and the families she recruits for them.
Posted 3/6/2013
Adoption Success Story of the Farmer Family
When Barry Farmer, 25, of Richmond, Virginia, first considered fostering, he didn't think beyond providing a temporary, loving home to a child in need. Now, a single dad of a 10-year-old boy he adopted through foster care, Farmer is looking to adopt as many as two more children.
