About National Adoption Day 2008
This year, National Adoption Day is on November 15. This day marks a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 114,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. This awareness helps make the dreams of thousands of children come true by supporting the efforts of courts, judges, attorneys, adoption professionals, child welfare agencies and advocates to finalize adoptions and find permanent, loving homes for children in foster care.
For the last nine years, National Adoption Day has been celebrated on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. For the first time in 2006, National Adoption Day was celebrated in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In total, more than 250 events were held throughout the country to finalize the adoptions of more than 3,300 children in foster care, and to celebrate all families who adopt.
This year, the HRC Family Project will make a unique contribution to National Adoption Day by raising the visibility of LGBT-headed adoptive families and encouraging LGBT prospective parents to learn more about the children in foster care waiting families of their own in which they can grow, thrive and succeed.
If you are a member of the LGBT community and adopted a child or children from foster care we invite you to submit your story to us. We will select a diverse group of family profiles from across the U.S. to feature on our website during National Adoption Day. Let’s be sure that our families are part of this important celebration!
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