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Photos are from the national adoption recruitment campaign, a partnership of the Children's Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUsKids.

Highlights of National Adoption Month 2009

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau supports many activities that promote the adoption of children and youth from foster care. National Adoption Month raises public awareness about the thousands of children and youth waiting in foster care for permanent, loving families. The following are some examples of other Children's Bureau efforts to promote adoption:

• Adoption Excellence Awards
  Children's Bureau
  Award winners and nomination guidelines.
  
  
• Adoption PSAs Generate Millions of Dollars in Donated Media Support and Help Find Families for Kids
  Offers information on the power of media support for promoting adoption from foster care.
  
  
• Children's Bureau Youth Permanency Grant Cluster
  Provides information about the accomplishments of nine grants awarded by the Children's Bureau to explore innovative programs to achieve youth permanency. It includes curriculum and attitude scales about options for youth permanency, including open adoption.
  
  
• FY 2000–2008 Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Awards
  Lists priority areas and award winners for each year.
  
  
• A Report to Congress on Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions From Foster Care: Perspectives of Families and Staff Supported by the Adoption Opportunities Program
  Children's Bureau (2007)
  Identifies the child, family, and agency factors that presented as barriers or contributors to successful adoptions from foster care.



• A Report to Congress on Adoption and Other Permanency Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: Focus on Older Children
  Children's Bureau (2006)
  Addresses the challenges related to achieving permanency for children and youth in foster care and presents strategies that show promise for improving outcomes for children in foster care.
  
  
• A Report to Congress on Interjurisdictional Adoption of Children in Foster Care
  Children's Bureau (2006)
  Discusses challenges related to the movement of children in foster care to permanent homes in jurisdictions outside their State or county of residence and presents strategies to improve outcomes for children in foster care whose permanent families reside across jurisdictional lines.



• You Don't Have to be Perfect to be a Perfect Parent
  AdoptUsKids
  View public service announcements from the ad campaign to recruit families for children and youth in foster care, send e-cards to prospective and adoptive parents, and find resources about adoption from foster care.

Updated on October 5, 2009