Adoption Awareness Month 2009
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Visit the National Adoption Awareness Month page for more information and ideas.
| 1 Get together with a birth mother you know and discuss your stories. [ view details ] |
2 Advocate!Encourage your local newspaper to write a feature article on adoption. [ view details ] |
3 Take pictures of all your adoption-related activities this month and start a scrapbook. [ view details ] |
4 Volunteer to mentor teens close to 'aging out' of foster care. [ view details ] |
5 Organize an open event that celebrates your child's heritage (food, dances, literature, art). [ view details ] |
6 Write a letter of thanks and appreciation to all those that helped you or are currently helping you adopt your child. [ view details ] |
7 Contact a local radio station about promoting National Adoption Awareness Month. [ view details ] |
| 8 Rent a movie with an adoption theme and watch it as a family. [ view details ] |
9 Take a social worker out to lunch to thank them for their work with finding children homes. [ view details ] |
10 Attend a local support group. [ view details ] |
11 Buy an adoption-related children's book and donate it to a local school or children's group. [ view details ] |
12 Advocate!List any adoption events on your favorite forums, blogs, or chat rooms. [ view details ] |
13 Plan a welcome party for someone whose adoption is nearly finalized. [ view details ] |
14 Share your own story. [ view details ] |
| 15 Begin a new family tradition that celebrates your similarities, your differences, and your love for each other. [ view details ] |
16 Let your child pick a dish from their home country or their heritage, and then make it together as a family. [ view details ] |
17 Invite your child's friends over to your house, explain adoption, and let them ask any questions they may have. [ view details ] |
18 Advocate!Collaborate with a local bookstore or library to setup an adoption book display. [ view details ] |
19 Volunteer at a local pregnancy shelter or maternity home. [ view details ] |
20 Offer your home to those traveling to adopt a child in your area for the evening or for a few days. [ view details ] |
21 National Adoption Day!Show your support by going to your local courts and watch the finalizing of forever families. [ view details ] |
| 22 Be a respite provider for the weekend. [ view details ] |
23 Sign up to sponsor a less fortunate child for a year. [ view details ] |
24 Advocate!Volunteer with local adoption activities, fundraisers, or get-togethers. [ view details ] |
25 Spend the evening reading stories, folktales, and fairytales from your child's heritage. [ view details ] |
26 Thanks- givingInvite foster children to your home for Thanksgiving. [ view details ] |
27 Learn about positive adoption language. [ view details ] |
28 Donate to an adoption foundation. [ view details ] |
| 29 Light a candle in honor of your child's birth parents or your own birth parents. [ view details ] |
30 Plan to invite young adults who have aged out or anyone that needs a home for the holidays to your family's festivities. [ view details ] |
