Celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month - 30 days of ideas to help promote adoption.

Adoption Awareness Month 2008

Visit the National Adoption Awareness Month page for more information and ideas.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1 Start off with a bang, cook a meal with your family. [ view details ]
2 Catch up on scrapbooking projects that celebrate your family [ view details ]	3 Advocate! Lobby for an Adoption Friendly Workplace. Talk to your HR Director. [ view details ]	4 Talk to the media about featuring children waiting for a home in your state. [ view details ]	5 Contact National CASA, about volunteering to help children who need a voice in your area. [ view details ]	6 Volunteer to help at Adoption events in your area. [ view details ]	7 Contact local schools and offer to speak on the topic of adoption [ view details ]	8 Create a new family tradition that celebrates your family and how you came together each year. [ view details ]
9 Celebrate multicultural families by visiting a local multicultural center. [ view details ]	10 Plan a picnic for the community to celebrate adoption. [ view details ]	11 Send an email to all of your friends and family about National Adoption Day. [ view details ]	12 Drop off information about waiting children in public places in your area. [ view details ]	13 Advocate! Reach out and share your adoption story with others. [ view details ]	14 Bake cookies to take to the court house where they are celebrating National Adoption Day. [ view details ]	15 National Adoption Day! Courts all over the U.S. will finalize thousands of adoptions today. [ view details ]
16 Plan a special meal that celebrates your child's heritage. [ view details ]	17 Talk to your place of worship about having a service that delivers a message on adoption. [ view details ]	18 Advocate! Write your senators/governor and urge them to feature waiting children from your state on the Adoption.com Photolisting. [ view details ]	19 Ask your place of employment to sponsor local foster children for the holidays. [ view details ]	20 Rent a movie with an adoption theme and watch it as a family. View our list of movies here [ view details ]	21 Volunteer to work at your states next recruitment fair. [ view details ]	22 Take a family photo to share with everyone in the family. [ view details ]
23 Create a family tree that incorporates both birth and adoptive family members [ view details ]	24 Advocate! Volunteer to mentor teens close to 'aging out' of foster care. [ view details ]	25 Collect donations for local foster families who provide loving homes for children waiting for their forever families. [ view details ]	26 Write to your local and state representatives about adoption and issues that concern you. [ view details ]	27 Thanks- giving Give thanks to those who helped you build your family by sending Thank You Cards. [ view details ]	28 Write an editorial to reflect on National Adoption Month and send it to your local newspapers for publication. [ view details ]	29 Read an Adoption realted book as a family. [ view details ]
30 Think about who you will nominate for the Angels in Adoption Award next year. [ view details ]

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