More than 129,000 foster children need adoptive families. Your donation helps us find loving parents for these children, support adoptive families and raise adoption awareness.
How do you help people in my community?
NACAC actively helps children and families in every state in the United States.
To promote and support permanent families for children and youth in care, NACAC’s work encompasses four key areas: public policy advocacy, parent leadership capacity building, education/information sharing, and adoption support. Through community forums, training, and more, NACAC advocates for child welfare policy and practice reforms that will help children and youth find permanent families more quickly and help families receive the post-adoption support they need. NACAC provides information to prospective adopters, reminding them of the tens of thousands of children and teenagers waiting in foster care for a forever family. In Minnesota, NACAC operates the MN ASAP parent network to support adoptive parents raising children who have special needs.
NACAC’s Adoption Subsidy Resource Center provides critical assistance that enables families to obtain the medical and financial resources they need to raise children and youth adopted from foster care. NACAC has volunteer representatives in nearly every state who can provide guidance and resources about adoption in your area.
NACAC offers supportive services and leadership training to hundreds of adoptive, foster, and kinship parent groups. Through the most comprehensive adoption conference in North America, NACAC educates child welfare professionals, adoptive, foster, and kinship parents, and others touched by adoption. Staff offer training to parents and workers on topics such as adoption assistance, parent group development, and transracial parenting. By publishing the quarterly newsletter Adoptalk and other valuable resources, NACAC informs parents, child welfare professionals, and other child advocates about foster care and adoption issues.
Why do you need my support?
By donating to NACAC, you help support adoptive families and find permanent families for the thousands of foster children who need one. We depend on public donations to continue our efforts on their behalf.
With public donations we provide support to prospective parents hoping to open their homes and hearts to a foster child who needs to be adopted. We also use donations to help families access supportive services and raise children who have been abused and neglected resulting in special needs.
Our vision of the year 2015 (what is different in the world of NACAC’s stakeholders because of NACAC) is that children and youth in care – especially those in foster care and those with special needs – have joined permanent families that are supported by their communities.
How can I be sure that you will use my money wisely and won't waste it?
As a foundation program officer has said: “Not only is NACAC a program officer’s dream grantee in terms of frugality and project management, but NACAC is also incredibly effective at delivering as proposed.”
NACAC operates with a very low overhead rate, and conducts an annual audit of our finances which is published in our annual report and available to the public.
Can I Volunteer? How?
In Minnesota, volunteer opportunities exist for support of our special events AdoptWalk and the Voices from the Heart Gala. For additional information, please contact Nancy Viking, NACAC director of development at 651-644-3036 or NancyViking@nacac.org..
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