While you wait: developing characteristics of a successful parent
Five traits and supports you’ll want as an adoptive parent and tips for acquiring them while you’re waiting for a placement.
Path to parenthood
Stepping through our fears—for Steven
When Helen Cotton and her husband decided to adopt a teen, she never imagined that it would be the “sweet, smart, caring little troublemaker” who had been a student in her third grade class.
Foster care and adoption in the age of COVID-19
We’re talking with child welfare workers, collecting information from families, and working with trusted national and local organizations to bring you resources as we have them.
Outstanding Caseworker: Jonathan Nichols
This Ohio caseworker sometimes thinks of himself as a tour guide, because he asks children and teens where they want to go and what they want their future to look like.
Outstanding Caseworker: Lori Nichols
Flexibility, patience, and “being comfortable with being uncomfortable” are a few qualities of a successful foster parent, according to this veteran foster care recruiter.
A TV appearance leads to an adoption
A Georgia family adopts their son days before his 18th birthday.