Monday 4 April 2011

Organisations supporting Adoption

The Alliance
The Alliance has worked together with the Los Angeles Juvenile Court and the Department of Children and Family Services to expedite and increase the number of children adopted from Los Angeles foster care. The Alliance’s Foster Children’s Adoption Project combines (1) public education, (2) free legal services to finalize adoptions, and (3) pre- and post-adoption legal and social services for children and their families, such as assistance obtaining health services, adoption assistance benefits, and independent living services. The Alliance completes nearly half of all foster children’s adoptions in Los Angeles County each year.

                                              

The Children's Action Network
Formed in 1990 by leaders in the entertainment industry, the Children's Action Network (CAN) is dedicated to improving the lives of America’s children. Through extensive public education campaigns, community-based programs and policy initiatives, CAN uses the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and make them a top priority in everyday life.
        
                                        


Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI)
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands of children in the U.S. foster care system and the millions of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic need of a family. CCAI strives to accomplish its mission by serving as an informational and educational resource to policymakers as they seek to draft positive adoption legislation and to focusing public attention on the advantages of adoption. CCAI works in collaboration with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (CCA), which is a bicameral, bipartisan caucus, with more than 190 Members of Congress.

                          

Dave Thomas Foundation
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems. Created by Wendy’s founder, Dave Thomas, who was adopted, the Foundation implements results-driven national signature programs, foster care adoption awareness initiatives and research-based advocacy efforts.

                                   

Freddie Mac Foundation
The Freddie Mac Foundation, sustained by its endowment, is dedicated to making home a place where children and families thrive. The Foundation funds programs in the areas of stable homes/stable families; academic and career success; and foster care and adoption. Through the Freddie Mac Foundation Wednesday’s Child program in five major metropolitan areas, and the Freddie Mac Foundation Heart Gallery, we have helped find adoptive homes for more than 1,500 children in foster care.

                                

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