Ask MomRN Show - Tamara Walker, R.N.  

November is National Adoption Month. MomRN has been asked to spread the word about the importance and benefits of adoption from foster care. Please visit AdoptUsKids (http://www.adoptuskids.org) to learn more about foster care and adoption.

The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States. Funded by the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, the national photolisting website contains photos and information about children in foster care. A national adoption public service advertising recruitment campaign was launched in July 2004 in a partnership of the Children’s Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUsKids, with the goal of raising awareness of the significant number of children in this country waiting to be adopted. New PSAs have been developed as an extension of this highly successful campaign. The latest series of ads in this award-winning campaign target the African American community, in keeping with the effort to diligently recruit from communities representative of the children in care. Thirty-one percent of the children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American; African American children are overrepresented in the foster care population relative to their percentage in the U.S. general population. Because of this, African American children often wait longer to be adopted.

Please visit http://www.adoptuskids.org/adoption-and-foster-care-advocacy/ to learn more about adoption from foster care and how to help spread the word about children in care waiting for a forever family. You can search for children in your area by visiting: http://www.adoptuskids.org/Child/ChildSearch.aspx.

If you are on Twitter, I recommend you follow @perfectparent (http://twitter.com/perfectparent or http://twitter.com/adoptuskids) and become a fan of AdoptUsKids on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AdoptUsKids.

Finally, there was a Twitter event at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, November 10th to discuss the benefits of adoption, and provide information on adoption from foster care. Search the hashtag #adoptuskids to read the information posted during the event.

This campaign is brought to you by Global Influence, the former Momfluence network. MomRN is proud to be a member of Global Influence to bring you important information and ways to get involved in making a difference in the world around us.