National Adoption Month

This was one of the recent posts on the Gladney site explaining National Adoption Month:

The Gladney Center for Adoption has much to celebrate. November is National Adoption Month - a time to remember families created through the miracle of adoption. The Gladney Center participates in this celebration by honoring the 27,000 children placed with loving families through the agency's comprehensive adoption services.

It is appropriate for National Adoption Month to be positioned in the month of November celebrating a time of thanksgiving. Using white ribbons to raise awareness, National Adoption Month celebrates families touched by adoption, honors birth mothers for their courageous choice, and remembers children who still need permanent homes.

The Gladney Center for Adoption offers many personalized and comprehensive adoption programs. Each program is custom-tailored help create a bright future through adoption. Birth mothers who make adoption plans through The Gladney Center for Adoption may live on its Fort Worth campus or can live at home while participating in the agency's Community Service Program. In either case, dedicated social workers will help her make a personalized adoption plan that is best for her and her child. Gladney offers birth mothers openness and flexibility in the adoption process, private medical care, counseling, an in-house legal staff, education opportunities and lifelong post adoption services.
Gladney's International Adoption Programs have successfully placed thousands of babies and young children in homes throughout the United States. These programs offer adoption opportunities in Eastern European, African, Asian and Latin American countries. Not only does adopting internationally assist families in achieving their dream of parenthood, but also fulfills the dream of children in orphanages and foster homes who await the love of a forever family.

The Gladney Center for Adoption extended its commitment to children and families in 2000 by creating the New Beginnings Program. The New Beginnings Program provides two adoption options. The first is assisting the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in recruiting loving adoptive homes for children currently waiting in the State's foster care system. New Beginnings also places medically fragile children in loving and caring homes.

White ribbons that are worn during the month of November will remind people of the lifelong benefits that adoption offers to young women experiencing unplanned pregnancies, children in need of permanent homes, and families built through the miracle of adoption. Adoption directly impacts the lives of millions of people. Please join us in raising awareness about the miracle of adoption through the celebration of National Adoption Awareness Month.