Mission Statement | Making A Difference | CFFC Team | Board and Advisory Board List

Making A Difference By:

Bridging. . .

connections between family and community

connections between birth, foster, kin, guardian, and adoptive parents

connections between public and private agencies

connections between lawyers and child welfare professionals

Building. . .

awareness of developmental issues that are present for birth and adoptive parents, for guardian, foster, and kinship parents, and especially for foster children and adopted people

Teaching. . .

parents how to advocate for their children in their schools, courts, hospitals, and community

professionals how to be adoption competent educators

Training. . .

parents and people touched by adoption

pediatricians, clergy, and educators to identify challenging adoption issues and to normalize them for the families and children they serve

legal professionals who are crucial in this process, to understand the complexities for these families before, and most of all, after the legalization

public and private agencies and professionals, to discern the true difference between placement and permanency

Exploring. . .

what it means to live in the world of adoption

Understanding. . .

the positive challenges of adoption for all involved

the meaning of the search and the difference about reunion for all involved--it is the opening of a closed adoption at any age

Integrating. . .

the spirit of adoption for extended family and community

Identifying. . .

strategies that help complex blended families to become, and remain, intact as they face their challenges and transform their lives

 

Adoption is not an event.
It is a life-long process and an intergenerational journey.

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