There’s no time like the present – National Adoption Month – to become an adoption advocate in your school, community or church! But how can someone begin to become an adoption advocate?
Some of our blog posts from this month are a good place to start:
- Find an Adoption Mentor for Your Child
- Teaching Children About Adoption
- Ask for Adoption Benefits at Work
- Spreading Adoption to Your Faith Community
AdoptiveFamilies.com is also full of resources to help you advocate for adoption, including this great Adoption Advocate Guide.
Here are some other simple ways to become an adoption advocate:
- Help your child talk about adoption at adoption at school.
- Share an adoption badge on your blog of website.
- Find out where you local politicians stand on adoption issues, such as the Adoption Tax Credit.
- Get adoption in the local media and spread the word.
- Connect with other on our adoption forum.
- Resolve to use and educate on positive adoption language.
Something as simple as starting a conversation about adoption can really help to create awareness and overturn adoption stereotypes!
I really want to spread the news about adoption. I myself was adopted and have adopted 5 plus 4 more just because adoption was not in the cards. I want to make adoption a positive thing. Even now feel it is not totally understood. You really have to live it to understand it. Will be starting a support group but want speaking jobs. I am 69 years old and have so much to say want to help . My state has limited adoption supports and we need to bring them back. The adoption support we have are great but not enough. Thank you for your time
hello! my name is aeriel and I am adopted myself. I want to become an advocate for those in foster care and that have been adopted. I am just not sure how to go about this. I also want to help change the stigma in politics and in the media, but again, I am not sure how to go about this. I would appreciate any and all help!
Hi, Aeriel — Look for an email from one of our staff writers shortly!
Hello, My name is Artreese and I was adopted at 5 years old. At age 29, I am still finding biological relatives. I’ve been wanting to share my story for a long time but I do not know how to go about doing that just yet. I very much would like to become an advocate for adoption and how to educate foster parents to have a positive relationship with their foster child. Before I was adopted I was in foster care, however, I still have memories from traumatic experiences. I really would like to make it my life’s work of shedding a positive light on the subject of adoption and foster care. I hope you can help point me in the right direction. Thank you!
Hi, Artreese — Look for an email from one of our staff writers shortly about telling your adoption story!
Hello, My name is Leul and I was adopted at age 7 from Ethiopia. Now at age 17, I am coming to fully realize the positive light adoption needs, it has brought me to find many people that I care about and am so grateful because it gave me a chance to live and become someone. I think adoption is a wonderful thing, but I have realized that it has become a kind of stigma especially for people in my generation. I hope I can change the perspective of those people and make them realize that this was the greatest thing to happen to me. I was born into a family where I was abandoned by everyone except my grandmother who worked tirelessly to keep me alive. We were the losest of the low in the poverty chain and I remember several traumatic experiences such as almost dying because of the lack of food. Or the countless hours I spent begging people on the side of Adis Ababa( the capital of Ethiopia) for any kind of food or money. Without this gift of adoption, I highly doubt I wouldn’t be here today. I also hope you can help me tell my story to more people. Thank you.
I placed my child up for adoption through you all about 3 years ago. I was also adopted at both. I would just like to help families in both situations if I can.
Hi, Kaley — Please watch for an email from one of our staff members about sharing your story. Thank you!
I am 28 and placed my daughter. I want to tell my story bc it truly is amazing!
Hi, Brylee — Please watch for an email from our writing staff about sharing your adoption story!