Celebrate Adoption Awareness Month

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

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				1 Talk to your local library and bookstores about featuring adoption related books in November. [ view details ]	2 Advocate! Lobby for an Adoption Friendly Workplace. Talk to your HR Director. [ view details ]	3 Plan a crafting or scrapbooking party with local triad members. [ view details ]
4 Light a candle in honor of your child's birth parents. [ view details ]	5 Help organize a service in your place of worship that delivers a message on adoption and children. [ view details ]	6 Organize an adoption event for later in the month, to celebrate adoption. [ view details ]	7 Attend a support group in your area. If you don't have one, find out how to create one. [ view details ]	8 Plan a discussion at your local school which promotes positive adoption language. [ view details ]	9 Ask your local TV and Radio programs to feature children waiting for a home in your state. [ view details ]	10 Create a new family tradition that celebrates your family and how you came together each year. [ view details ]
11 Have a picnic in the park with adoption triad members in your area. [ view details ]	12 Advocate! Share your adoption story with the local media and give a voice to adoption in your area. [ view details ]	13 Print out and drop off information about waiting children in public places in your area. [ view details ]	14 Plan a special meal that incorporates your child's heritage. [ view details ]	15 Ask your company to sponsor local foster children for the holidays, by providing gifts for children in need. [ view details ]	16 Take a social worker to lunch to thank him or her for all the work they do to help children. [ view details ]	17 National Adoption Day! Courts all over the U.S. will finalize thousands of adoptions today. [ view details ]
18 Send an e-mail to all of your friends and family about National Adoption day. [ view details ]	19 Celebrate multicultural families by visiting a local multicultural center. [ view details ]	20 Volunteer to mentor teens close to 'aging out' of foster care. [ view details ]	21 Write your senators/governor and urge them to feature waiting children from your state on the Adoption.com Photolisting. [ view details ]	22 Thanksgiving Give thanks to those who helped you build your family by sending Thank You Cards. [ view details ]	23 Sign up to sponsor a less fortunate child for a year. [ view details ]	24 Advocate! Write to your local and state representatives about adoption and issues that concern you. [ view details ]
25 Bake cookies to take to your local foster care office. [ view details ]	26 Collect donations for local foster families and waiting children, for the holiday season. [ view details ]	27 Volunteer to work at your state's next recruitment fair. [ view details ]	28 Determine how you will pray on a regular basis for children and families that are seeking adoption placements.. [ view details ]	29 Create a scrapbook of the memories you have of National Adoption Awareness Month [ view details ]	30 Nominate someone you know for the Angels in Adoption Award. [ view details ]