2022
Post Adoption Contact Agreement (PACA): What is it and how will it affect me?
The state of Colorado recently passed a law that there is a legally enforceable PACA. A PACA is a Post Adoption Contact Agreement.
This article, from our friends at American Adoptions, outlines the benefits of a PACA. When you choose adoption, whether as a birth parent or as an adoptive parent, you can choose what kind of post-adoption contact you have with the other members of the adoption triad.
2022
How to be a Therapeutic Parent
As adoptive, foster, or even biological parents, we all tend to wonder how we could be doing better.
2022
Adult Adoptee Access to Adoption and Birth Records: History, Controversy, Legislation, and Societal Change
Written by our friends at the National Council For Adoption
At Hope’s Promise, we are for ALL children and families. That includes adoptees. Because our adoption program has been in existence since 1990, we have a lot of adoptees who are now adults. It is our priority through ethical practices and compassion to walk alongside these adoptees, no matter their age, to provide them with education and counseling when needed.
This blog, by our friends at the National Council For Adoption, addresses the adult adoptees access to adoption and birth records. Access to adoption and birth records for adopted individuals sits at the intersection of ethics, privacy, confidentiality, and adoptee rights. Carefully navigating these delicate topics requires an understanding of the history of adoptee records access, the legal statutes and legislative actions that have shaped it, and the impact of DNA technologies. In this month’s issue of the Adoption Advocate, author and adult adoptee Abigail Lindner, breaks it all down and offers some suggested changes and considerations for the future. https://adoptioncouncil.org/publications/adult-adoptee-access-to-adoption-and-birth-records-history-controversy-legislation-and-societal-change/
2021
Living Water
Jack and Miranda traveled to Vietnam with a Hope’s Promise Connection Team in 2019. In a recent Vietnam Virtual Experience, they shared about a particularly moving visit with the biological family of N’goanh. After losing both his parents, N’goanh came home to a Hope’s Promise non-relative based care family in 2013. The team visited his biological aunt, grandma, and other relatives.
2021
A Reason (or seven) to Give
First, it was a worldwide pandemic. Now there is an epidemic affecting non-profit organizations and churches alike. Recent statistics suggest in Colorado alone giving in 2021 is down more than 86% from 2020 and down 80 % from 2019. Those numbers are staggering. We’ve all seen the effects of the pandemic in our finances or that of our family members, employers, and/ or local businesses. That is why giving to Hope’s Promise or another one of your favorite non-profits in 2021 is so crucial.
In this article, published by Denver7, they outline seven reasons to give on Tuesday, December 7th, Colorado Gives Day.
Here are the highlights:
- Colorado nonprofits are vital
- $1.6 million boost
- Something for everyone
- Fast and convenient
- Teach children about philanthropy
- Give with confidence
- Giving increases happiness
Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3xCPYKy
You can give hope to the children and families we serve here: https://bit.ly/3mINy8l
2021
The Effects of Technology on Children…
World Children’s Day is tomorrow, November 20th, 2021. Because of what this day represents and the awareness it brings to children’s health, family, and those that work hard to help them, we thought we would share a couple blog resources created by top researchers in academia, including this one from Regis College. Through these guides, we can build awareness around the importance of the care and guidance that children need to grow up healthy.
2021
The Future of Adoption from Foster Care: A Call for Collaboration
America’s foster care system is in crisis. Despite real efforts to effect change, over 120,000 children remain in the system awaiting a permanent family through adoption. Finding the right families requires innovative solutions and collaborative partnerships. In this issue of the Adoption Advocate from the National Council for Adoption , they highlight the work of private agencies, like Hope’s Promise, who are successfully partnering with the public sector to achieve better outcomes for kids in the foster care system. Their experiences and guidance can serve as a springboard for more agencies to expand their services into this critical area of work.
2021
Single Parent Adoption
An increasing number of adoptive families are single-parent households where children have found permanency and are thriving with a Mom or Dad only.
2021
UNDERSTANDING SENSORY PROCESSING
Sensory processing is an important topic for anyone who loves and cares for a child.
2021
Orphan Care: You Can’t Do Everything, But You Can Do Something
No one is called to do everything, but everyone is called to do something.