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AdoptUSKids is a national project that supports child welfare systems and connects children in foster care with families. Read more. Find out about adoption from foster care. children photolisted on AdoptUSKids now live with permanent families.
Search AdoptUSKids photolisting. Search our database of thousands of children available for adoption using the criteria below.
State photolists. To help waiting children find permanency, we partner closely with states, tribes, and territories to make sure a child receives as much exposure to the public as appropriately possible. While you can sort the thousands of children photolisted on AdoptUSKids by state, not all children a state has available for adoption are ...
There are more than 4,500 children registered on AdoptUSKids. Every one of them is in need of a safe, permanent home; however, their characteristics do not represent those of all of the more than 117,000 children and youth in foster care who are waiting to be adopted.
Our national photolisting helps connect children in need of permanent homes with parents who are eager to adopt. There are currently more than 5,000 children and 2,500 families featured. Learn more.
Today there are more than 117,000 children and teens in foster care who are waiting for the love and security that a permanent home provides. You can learn more about foster care and adoption by clicking through our short, interactive modules about the children in care and the families they need.
Children and teens enter foster care through no fault of their own, because they have been abused, neglected, or abandoned and are unable to continue living safely with their families. According to the most recent federal data, there are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States.
AdoptUSKids educates families about foster care and adoption and gives child welfare professionals information and support to help them improve their services. We also maintain the nation’s only federally funded photolisting service that connects waiting children with families.
Frequently asked questions about adopting from foster care. Our resource specialists field thousands of calls about foster care and adoption every month. This page provides answers to frequently asked questions about: Costs of adoption. Who can adopt.
Educating yourself, contacting an agency, and attending an orientation meeting are the first steps toward adopting and/or fostering. Although it costs little (if anything) to adopt from foster care, the process of becoming an adoptive or foster parent can be time consuming and requires persistence.