At CK Family Services, we believe every child deserves a safe, loving, and permanent home. So far this November, we have celebrated 13 finalized adoptions! 13 beautiful stories of new beginnings and forever families.
As we celebrate Adoption Awareness Month, we’re proud to highlight our Adoption program, which plays a vital role in connecting children with their forever families. Our Matched Adoption and Post-Adoption teams have the privilege and honor of positively impacting the lives of families and children on a daily basis while cultivating genuine and trusting relationships, resulting in children finding their forever homes filled with love, nurture, and healing.
The Role of Matched Adoption Specialists
At CK Family Services, we are honored to witness incredible adoption stories that showcase the strength, resilience, and love of families opening their hearts and homes to children in need. This Adoption Awareness Month, we’re highlighting photos of many families who have welcomed new family members this year. Each story is unique and each is equally touching. Read about two such families whose journeys reflect the impact of CK’s adoption program and the profound difference that adoption can make.
The year was 1972 and I was at the birthday dance of my girlfriend Donna. A song came up that for the time was controversial and I was really surprised they played it. “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” blared through the record player. The song was proof that there was life after Sonny. I was destined to come face-to-face with the artist thirty years later on a hotel balcony in El Paso, Texas.
National Adoption Month happens every November and it’s a time to highlight needs within our community and celebrate families being formed. In 1995 the first National Adoption Month was proclaimed by former President Bill Clinton and it has been a national and state-wide initiative ever since.
Looking for ways to bond with your child? We at CK Family services are here to assist you! Following are just a few of the various activities you may engage with your foster children to help them bond.
In reality, you may use any of these ideas and strategies to improve your relationships with any of your children.
Great questions! Many children who are adopted from foster care have special needs that continue throughout their youth and into adulthood. Families who have adopted children from foster care know first hand that the act of adoption does not do away with those special needs, yet frequently adoptive families experience a lack of support once the adoption is finalized.
Every child deserves a #ForeverFamily. Adoption of children from foster care who are in their teen years is a rewarding experience. Many adoptive families view the choice to adopt an older child from foster care as a family mission that strengthens their family and their communities. When a child in the foster care system, leaves the foster care system because they have become an adult it is referred to as aging out of foster care. Statistics that describe the number of children who age out of foster care and end up homeless or in prison are heart breaking.
Our adoption story started on the TARE website. Well, actually I had been thinking and praying about adopting a child with special needs for quite some time. When I found the website and showed Joseph that ALL the children under the age of three on the site had some sort of special needs, God used that as a tool to prick his heart as well.
Levi and Khloe came into our lives in April 2009. Khloe came straight from the hospital where she was being treated for strangulation to the point of her limbs turning blue, and Levi came from a friend of the family’s where he had been starved for days. Khloe quit breathing on us the very first weekend we had her and we had to call 911. They were able to get her vitals back at the house and thankfully we had very little problems with Khloe after that as far as medical issues.