Advocating for your child at school
An adoptive mother and educator shares strategies to help family members advocate for children.
Special needs
Adopting a child with Down syndrome from foster care
Do your homework, connect with the Down syndrome community, and know what your resources are and how to access them.
Outstanding Caseworker: Trudy Tweedle-Cagle
“Organization is huge. And working weekends is inevitable.” A caseworker whose service area is the entire state of Minnesota talks about matching children and families.
Outstanding Caseworker: Ma Shonn Sullivan
An adoption worker talks about finding a forever family for a little girl with medical needs who was photolisted on adoptuskids.org.
“Where some people see obstacles, I see challenges”
When Tim Young set out to adopt two teens with special needs, he was presented with a lot of potential pitfalls. Luckily for Summer and Raymond, Tim was determined.
“Adoption will open your heart to new adventures”
Shannon Pinkerton adopted children with Down syndrome and other special needs. She says: “I never saw people with disabilities as being different.”
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