In honor of National Adoption Month, Alabama MENTOR celebrates all our Mentor foster parents who adopt children from care into their forever families! Each familyās foster care journey is different, but the need for caring [Read More]
It may seem that adopting from theĀ fosterĀ careĀ system would be an easy process. After all, we hear that there are millions of children in the United States waiting for homes all of the time. With all [Read More]
For many, perhaps most, the holidays bring about lots of joy for the present season as well as fond memories of seasons long ago. Often people declare that youāve never truly experienced the holidays until [Read More]
The UAB International Adoption Center (IAC) at Childrenās of Alabama will be hosting an adoption bootcamp on Saturday, February 23, at OakĀ Mountain Presbyterian Church (5080 Cahaba Valley Trace in Pelham, 35242). This event is typically [Read More]
Adoption can be a beautiful way to build a family. When a child is adopted, he doesnāt only gain parents, he may possibly gain grandparents. Grandparents arenāt a part of the decision to adopt, but [Read More]
Have you ever smelled a particular scent, tasted a certain food or heard a special song and instantaneously been reminded of an important event from your childhood? It is commonly understood that there are triggers [Read More]
My husband and I adopted our daughter when she was nine years old. She has a long list of mental health diagnoses. We quickly discovered that parenting a special needs child results in the whole [Read More]
Gina is one of the many birth mothers who placed her child for adoption through Lifeline Childrenās Services. Lifeline walks side by side with birth mothers as they make the decision on adoption and select [Read More]
Most people are surprised to hear that there are more than 300 children in the state of Alabama who are ready and waiting to be matched with families for adoption with very little monetary cost [Read More]
Jojo and Zee are my ātwins,ā not by birth (obviously) but by the great gift of adoption. They both have Down syndrome and are only seven months apart, but their adoption stories are quite different. [Read More]
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