ONE CHURCH ONE CHILD ADOPTION SUNDAY November 8, 2015

November has been recognized as National Adoption Month since 1990. National Adoption Month activities focus attention on the increasing number of children in the child welfare system waiting for placement with loving families. According Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS) June 2015 report, there are approximately 415,000 children currently in foster care, 108,000 of whom are waiting for permanent families.

According to Florida Department of Children and Families, there are over 700 children waiting in foster care statewide with no identified family to adopt them. Of the children in need of adoption, 50 percent are minority and 97 percent are over the age of five. Many of these children will reach their 18th birthday without ever knowing what it is like to have a loving, forever family.

One Church One Child Adoption Sunday is a statewide effort to encourage and equip Florida’s faith-based community to support and promote adoption. Each year, on the Second Sunday in November, One Church One Child provides information and promotional materials to local coalitions, community partners and congregations to help them increase awareness of children available for adoption, and recognize and support families who have adopted.

One Church One Child of Florida is part of a national effort founded on the realization that if just one family from each church adopted just one child, we could successfully place all the waiting children in loving, permanent homes with forever families.

At the state level, One Church One Child of Florida coordinates activities to help launch National Adoption Month in Florida.

This toolkit describes the roles and responsibilities of One Church One Child board members, coalition members and partners, and offers ideas for other businesses, organizations and individuals in the community interested in supporting adoption. We encourage you to modify the templates provided in this toolkit to promote your local adoption month events, and we ask you to share photos from these events with One Church One Child of Florida Headquarters so we can recognize your efforts on our website and in future newsletter articles.

For additional information, please contact the One Church One Child Headquarters Office at 850-414-5620 or toll free at 1.888.283.0886 or email info@ococfl.org. if we can provide any additional information in support of your local events.

 

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