With approximately 117,000 kids awaiting adoption in the U.S. foster care system, it is always a good time to bring awareness to the need for loving forever families to open their hearts and homes and change the lives of these vulnerable children and teens.This month is National Foster Care Month, and the theme is “Strengthening Minds.Uplifting Families.”This year’s theme aims to educate the public about taking a holistic approach to the mental and behavioral health of U.S. foster children.
After being traumatized by experiencing abuse and neglect, kids awaiting adoption face additional, unintended consequences while in the foster care system.Foster children and teens move an average of three times a year, preventing the opportunity to build consistent, loving relationships with caregivers.Moving often means changing schools, so they lose the support of caring teachers, the joy of friendships, and an estimated six months of academic progress for every school disruption.With so much loss, it is understandable that up to 80% of children in foster care have significant mental health issues compared to approx. 18-22% of their peers (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019).
Undoubtedly, children and youth in foster care urgently need their mental health needs prioritized, including access to the necessary healthcare and addressing the need for stable, loving relationships.For kids awaiting adoption in foster care, relational permanency is crucial to healing.At Building Arizona Families, we believe one of the most important components for healing from complex trauma is a loving, stable family and safe home providing the sense of family, belonging, and identity that foster children and youth urgently need.
Building Arizona Families offers convenient, informative online seminars if you live in Arizona and are interested in discovering more about U.S. kids awaiting adoption.You can find the most current schedule and RSVP on our Facebook page HERE or reach out directly to Ixcel Baca, Forever Families program manager, for information. Call Ixcel at (623) 696-9537 or e-mail her at ixcelbaca@buildingarizonafamilies.com. You can also find additional foster child adoption information HERE.
Thank you for considering opening your heart and home to a foster child who urgently needs the love and healing that your safe and loving home provides. We look forward to serving you on your adoption journey!
On National Adoption Day, communities in the United States come together to finalize thousands of adoption for children in foster care who have been hoping and praying for forever families. This day is held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November in all 50 US states to celebrate and finalize hundreds of adoptions of children in foster care.
National Adoption Day is also collective effort to raise awareness of the more than 120,000 children waiting to get adopted from foster care in the United States who did not get adopted today. They are still waiting in group homes around our country, hoping and praying that they will get chosen to be a part of a forever family.
(In this instance the biological families are the abusers, the parents who have had their rights severed so they are not allowed to be around the children or be included in the adoption process).
It’s also important to take the time to recognize, respect, and appreciate all the members of the adoption system by showing appreciation for the thousands of hard working people who are work tirelessly to watch over foster children and find them a forever family. National Adoption Day is a celebratory day where their hard work is rewarded by witnessing the miracle of abused, orphaned foster children are welcomed with the loving arms of their forever families.The joy erases the weariness of their difficult days as they witness the fruit of their labor.
This year National Adoption Day will fall on November 20, 2021. Adoption events are spilling out of courthouses all over the United States as precious fosterchildren are finally welcomed into a loving place of belonging called family. While this day is officially celebrated in November, we can celebrate foster children being adopted every day. We are thankful for everyone who is involved in this journey.
To find out more about foster care click Here or go to our Facebook.
You Might Qualify to Adopt Foster Children in Arizona
Did you know that there are foster children throughout Arizona who can’t return home, have had their parental rights severed as a result of unmitigated life threatening abuse and neglect, and are hoping that someone will open their heart and home to them? They want forever families. They want to be adopted. If this moves your heart, you might be surprised at who can qualify to adopt foster children in Arizona and throughout the United States.
Wesson is Waiting
Meet Wesson! If you want to adopt foster children in Arizona, Wesson is hoping and praying for a forever family! He is active, adventurous, polite and fun to be around. Wesson loves music and is currently taking guitar lessons through All Kids Need Music, and has even written a few songs! You can find out more about Wesson HERE. And, if you believe you can open your heart and home to Wesson, please reach out to Ixcel Baca, the Forever Families program manager at Building Arizona Families.
Criteria to Adopt Foster Children
To adopt foster children, you have to pass a home inspection, but that doesn’t mean you have to own your own home. Home can be an apartment. You have to be financially stable, but you don’t have to be wealthy. The process to adopt foster children is the least expensive of all types of adoption.
You need to provide a loving family environment, but you don’t have to be married. Single parents are welcome to adopt foster children in Arizona and throughout the United States.
To adopt foster children through Building Arizona Families, you need to be residents of Arizona. The foster children do not have to be residents of Arizona, and Building Arizona Families will work with you to adopt a foster child or foster children that best suit your family.
If You Adopt Foster Children, You Change a Child’s Future
Foster children whose parental rights are severed and are unable to be reunited with family are truly orphans. They are cared for by state child protective agencies and primarily live in group homes. On average, they move three times a year, which often means changing schools, losing trusting relationships, friends and encouraging teachers. Over time, these vulnerable children lose down emotionally, and do not want to continue to make caring relationships only to love them. They also fall behind in school because of the frequency of moving, and in many instances get discouraged and quit trying. If they are not adopted out of the foster care system, the outcomes are even worse. Children who were abuse and neglected now find themselves facing the world alone as young adults without the support they need to successfully navigate life. If no one steps up to adopt foster children and they age out of the system, most do not attend college. Many wind up homeless and addicted.
The story changes dramatically when they are adopted. Being welcomed into a loving family and stable living environment helps them heal emotionally. They often improve rapidly in school, and their outlook on their future becomes much brighter.
Can You Change a Child’s Future?
Find out if you can adopt foster children in Arizona and throughout the U.S. We invite you to attend an informative online seminar about adopting foster children. You can go to the Events tab on our Facebook page to view upcoming seminars and RSVP for the one that best meets your needs. Go here to view the schedule.
You can go to our Forever Families page on the website to learn more. You are also welcome to reach out with your questions at any time. Just go to our Contact Us page for who to reach out to, and ways to reach out.
Building Arizona Families, a local licensed adoption agency in Arizona, can help many different kinds of families wanting to grow. Forever families can be married couples with children already or trying to start their family now, or even single individuals looking to offer a forever home to a child in need. A forever family can be whoever comes together to share love, safety, and happiness. If you are ready to open your home in Arizona to a deserving foster child in need, please visit our adoption agency Building Arizona Families. We are here to help you learn more about our amazing adoption program, helping people grow a family and adopt foster children!
Single Applicants are Encouraged to Adopt Foster Children in Arizona
Married couples are not the only applicants eligible to adopt foster children in Arizona. Single women and men can adopt foster children and offer a beautiful new start to a child waiting for a parent to love and care for them forever.
Below are a few eligibility requirements for single applicants interested in adopting foster children in Arizona –
An individual living in Arizona needs to be legally eligible to adopt a child or teen in foster care. The single applicant does not need to be foster care certified to adopt foster children in Arizona but certified to adopt through a home study. For approximately six months, a foster child will be welcomed into the home and then can be legally adopted. Please visit us HERE to learn more about the requirements to adopt foster children in Arizona.
Foster Children Available for Adoption in Arizona
The majority of foster children are five years of age or older. There are also sibling groups or children who have a higher level of need. All children in the foster system deserve to feel the stability and love of a forever family. Download our Adopting Foster Children Information Guide HERE.
Building Arizona Families is a Local, Licensed Adoption Agency in Arizona Ready to Serve You
As an Arizona adoption agency founded by two women, every adoption that we facilitate is special. Building Arizona Families adoption agency is committed to walking beside you every step of the way until your forever family is complete!
Our local, licensed Arizona adoption agency offers complimentary adoption seminars online. The seminars include detailed information about the adoption process, requirements, costs, and types of adoptions available to prospective adoptive families. Please reach out by calling Lisa at 623-692-4424 or e-mailing her at lisa@buildingarizonafamilies.com for more information about upcoming adoption seminars. Read more about our licensed adoption agency in Arizona HERE. We look forward to helping your forever family grow!
Learn more about We Are Their Future and how you can help children living in the foster care system by visiting us HERE. There is a way everyone can help a child in need of a forever family.
I am so happy to report to you the difference that compassionate people like you are making in orphans’ lives! I hope you enjoy the spotlight on “T” in the Changed Children section. (Do keep in mind that in many instances, we don’t share the child’s name or actual photo to protect the confidentiality of the child for their protection.) We are so proud of “T”, and excited that her story of progress is going to be shared in a TV interview. We believe it will encourage others to help the vulnerable orphans we serve receive the healing they need, as well as help find forever families for these children who desperately want a home.
Since our last newsletter, I am happy to report that we are now providing music lessons for FIFTEEN orphaned U.S. children because of generous corporate and individual sponsors. As word spreads among the children, our waiting list for sponsors grows. In addition to serving Arizona orphans we are now serving Ohio orphans who actually live in a facility called an orphanage! We now have EIGHT children waiting to be matched with sponsors, and can’t wait to offer them the benefits of learning to play a musical instrument.
As we reported last month, we are working on grant applications. To be honest, it is slow going. We urgently need individual and corporate funding now. Our program is truly only limited by the number of sponsors we have. I so greatly appreciate your compassionate, generous heart to help abused orphans living right here in our own country. I really need your help to spread the word about these children so that we can get them the help they need. Can you forward this e-mail to friends, co-workers, pastors, and businesses that can help make a difference? We will not give up on these children, and are committed to finding a sponsor for every orphan that wants the opportunity to play a musical instrument or learn to sing. It is the least we can do for them.
April was National Child Abuse Prevention Month. One of the keys to preventing abuse is awareness – if you are uncomfortable with how a child is being treated or you are concerned about their living environment, be a good neighbor and find out how you can help. If you witness abuse, please be courageous and report it. Last year, there were over THREE MILLION incidences where child protective services intervened. There were over 2,000 children that did not survive. For those who do survive horrific abuse, the aftermath is haunting.
We have to help as many abused, orphaned children as possible. Please help share the message about these children and ways we can be a part of changing their future. Post the newsletter on your social media accounts. Forward it to friends. Join us on our social media sites and share our posts. We need advocates to bring awareness to the suffering these children have endured, and corporate sponsors and individual sponsors to join us in their healing. AND, no gift is too small. We need to buy musical instruments, pay instructors, even pay for things like our Zoom subscription so we can teach online. It all adds up – please help where you can. All Kids Need Music is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so your gifts are tax deductible. Thank you again for your compassion to care for these terribly wounded orphans.
For the Children,
Ed Kelly
President/CEO
All Kids Need Music
Meet “T”! Through a generous corporate sponsorship from Building Arizona Families, “T” was given 52 weeks of piano lessons. “T” came into the program in March. She is fourteen, orphaned, and lives in a group home. She began her musical journey by wanting to make it to American Idol! Her gifted teacher, Karen, recognized her aptitude for piano and directed her to the instrument that she is now excelling at.
She had a rocky start, but thanks to her trauma trained music instructor, she is doing wonderfully! Her instructor, Karen, says she is clearly a gifted, remarkable girl, and tells us that she and “T” have developed a very special bond. She is doing so well that she was chosen to be highlighted in an upcoming television interview along with Karen to illustrate how powerful trauma informed music therapy is in healing abused children. “T” is learning to respond positively to her environment and emotions, telling Karen that when the kids at the group home are fighting, she just goes into her room and practices her music. This is great progress!
Visit our website HERE to watch the TV interview!
Would you like more information about adopting foster children? Building Arizona Families, one of our corporate sponsors, can help. They offer virtual seminars on adoption for foster children, infants, and Haitian children. You can find out more about adoption by visiting their website HERE. And, you can view children whose parental rights have been severed and who are hoping and praying for forever families HERE. Please forward the information about adoption to friends and family!
Meet Building Arizona Families, Arizona’s leading adoption agency and our first Champion’s Champion Sponsor! Building Arizona Families helps families around the U.S. adopt newborn babies. They also provide adoption services for Arizona families to adopt foster children around the country. Additionally, they help U.S. families adopt children from Haiti. Building Arizona Families is a non-profit, licensed, and internationally accredited adoption agency founded by one woman who was adopted herself and another woman who has adopted three children. We are grateful for their generous support in sponsoring SIX U.S. orphans whose lives will be forever changed by Building Arizona Families and their tax deductible donation. Find out more about this wonderful adoption agency at www.buildingarizonafamilies.com
Champions for Children
Meet Dr. John and Dinah Hodgson. The Hodgsons have been making a difference in the lives of vulnerable children for decades, both in the U.S. and around the world. They have served in orphanages and ministered hope to HIV positive children and teenagers, and taught school children in remote villages in Africa.
John and Dinah are located in Ohio, and became the first sponsors for children in the St. Joseph’s Orphanage. When asked if they could sponsor an orphan in Ohio, their response was, “How could we not help?”. We are so grateful for the Hodgson’s championing a U.S. orphan’s opportunity to learn to play music!
We have an orphan waiting for a sponsor at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Ohio.
We have seven orphans in Arizona waiting for sponsors.
Individual Champions
There are so many ways for individuals to help change the lives of foster children.
Choose a child or children to sponsor for a year. You can choose to cover the costs of the child’s instrument and lessons, just the lessons, or just the instrument with our music charity. You can also choose to give to the area of greatest need when helping kids with All Kids Need Music. You can make a single gift or a monthly recurring gift. And remember, it changes childrens’ lives and is tax deductible as an additional benefit to you. Please visit us HERE to learn more!
Business Champions
Businesses that sponsor music lessons and instrument rental for at risk youth are first and foremost changing the lives of the most vulnerable children in the U.S. As a thank you for the generosity of our business partners, our music charity All Kids Need Music provides an effective platform for businesses to build their brand around their corporate generosity.
Research proves that corporations that give back have a significantly higher brand appeal and loyalty rate. Corporations engaged in social good also positively impact their own employees at work satisfaction and company loyalty. Being a champion for at-risk youth provides the opportunity for employees to stay in touch with their sponsored child, providing a source of joy and sense of being cared about for children who in many instances have been terribly abused and discarded. Please visit us HERE to learn more!
We urgently need your help for thousands of U.S. orphans living in group homes and shelters around our country. These orphaned children are at risk youth that have already experienced so much pain and loss from unimaginable child abuse and neglect. They need the opportunity to heal through the therapy of playing a musical instrument. Music charity for children can provide that service. We are an IRS registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and your generous gift is tax deductible. Please do what you can to help these children!
All Kids Need Music, a music non profit, is changing foster children’s lives through the transformative power of therapeutic music lessons. Watch the recent television interview below to learn more:
KOLD News 13 in Tucson, Arizona shares how All Kids Need Music is connecting children in foster care with music teachers trained in trauma.
“These children who have been through horrific, horrific abuse are the ones who need the trauma healing,” said Vicki Isaac, the founder of We Are Their Future, which helps foster children find forever homes. However, she said until that day comes, many children can live in up to three households a year. The virtual music lessons give them the opportunity to see a familiar face no matter where they go. “If you can imagine what that does to a child who doesn’t have parents. Who do you trust? Do you want to build another relationship with someone? After a while these children start shutting down,” she said.
From just one month of lessons, music teacher Karen Shaffstall can already see her student progressing. “She grasps everything I say to her,” Shaffstall said. “She’s on the edge of her seat listening.”
The music teachers are helping students develop musical skills and a meaningful bond. “I feel like we’ve built a special kinship, a relationship and this happens very often in music settings,” she said. “It’s kind of that family feeling.”
Providing children consistency and an adult they can trust is the ultimate goal of the program. “I said if you ever need anything, you know if you need to talk or whatever I’m here not only musically. She said that’s so great,” Shaffstall said.
Each child gets their own instrument which helps give them a sense of ownership. “While we work on finding forever families for them, they need the healing,” Isaac said.
Visit the KOLD News 13 website HERE to read the full news story by KOLD News 13 in Tucson, Arizona about All Kids Need Music. Visit All Kids Need Music if you want to learn more about the program and sponsoring a child.
About All Kids Need Music Non Profit
All Kids Need Music is an IRS recognized 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide at risk, underprivileged children with the transformative power of music education to improve their physical, social, emotional and cognitive outcomes. Information about All Kids Need Music music charity and nonprofit is available at www.allkidsneedmusic.academy.
All About We Are Their Future
Vickie Isaac, owner and CEO of Elevate Marketing is the founder of We Are Their Future. We Are Their Future is a registered 501(c) non-profit organization, EIN 30-1002633. We are passionate about changing the lives of our country’s most vulnerable children. We are committed to finding foster and adoptive families through our non profit marketing. We will also help meet the practical needs of the tens of thousands of foster children. We believe everyday people stepping up is the solution. We need your help to make sure that children in foster care have the same opportunities as every other child in the United States. We can’t do it alone. Please visit us HERE to help us find loving, safe, forever families for America’s vulnerable orphans.
In April, we recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month and the importance of our families and communities working together to help children experiencing abuse and/or neglect. Through the collaboration of many, we can help protect these children by adopting children in foster care. In Arizona right now, 2,969 children are considered legally free and are living in foster care. When birth parents’ rights have been terminated by the state, their children are considered legally free for adoption. These children are anxiously waiting for a family to adopt them and give them a life full of love, safety, and permanency. Foster adoption in AZ can save a child’s life.
Families living in Arizona can change a child’s life forever and grow their family by adopting foster children. Building Arizona Families offers the Forever Families U.S. Adoption Program which helps facilitate direct placements of foster children waiting for adoption in AZ and around the United States. Arizona families can help stop the horrific cycle of children living without a family and experiencing abuse and/or neglect. No child should be suffering and deserves a beautiful life full of love and support. To find out more about opening your forever home to a foster child in great need, please visit us HERE to find out more about the Forever Families U.S. Adoption Program. Building Arizona Families is a non-profit, licensed, and internationally accredited adoption agency serving families across the United States. Visit us HERE to learn more about our Arizona adoption agency.
Building Arizona Families Offers the Forever Families U.S. Foster Adoption in Arizona Program to Help Families Adopt Kids out of Foster Care
Contrary to what many people believe, you do not have to foster to adopt foster children. We will help you walk through the direct adoption of children in the foster care system. Download our foster child adoption info kit HERE.
We can work together to help innocent children heal from abuse, neglect, loneliness, fear, and sadness. Direct adoption of a foster child is less expensive than private adoption and may be a faster adoption process. The states these children reside in will help facilitate the adoption of foster children whose parental rights are severed because they recognize the urgent need for children to grow up in loving families. Visit us HERE. We can help you begin your adoption journey and offer a child in great need a life full of love and safety.
Adopt Children in Foster Care to Start a Life with Love and Stability as a Forever Family
Almost half a million children around the United States are waiting every day for someone to adopt them and change the life they are living. Will you be the one to change their story and adopt foster children? Learn more about the Forever Families program Building Arizona Families offers to adopt foster children in Arizona and around the U.S. HERE. You can be the change they are praying for!
We also invite you to attend one of our informative adoption seminars. You can reach out to Ixcel Baca, Program Coordinator, directly and ask any questions you might have. Ixcel would love to hear from you! You can reach Ixcel at (623) 696-9537 or by e-mailing her at ixcelbaca@buildingarizonafamilies.com.
All Kids Need Music is helping Arizona’s orphans heal from life threatening, heartbreaking abuse and neglect. These vulnerable abused children are at significantly higher risk for negative physical, psychological, and cognitive outcomes. Through no fault of their own, they have not only experienced horrific trauma, but continue to suffer the long term effects of the abuse they endured. Without intervention, these long term effects can rob them of a the chance for a productive, happy life.
Fortunately, research illustrates that abused children may be able to recover with
appropriate interventions. Learning to play music is one intervention proven to improve cognitive functioning, educational outcomes, and positively impact mental health. All Kids Need Music focuses on providing Arizona foster children whose parental rights are severed the opportunity to heal through the transformative power of learning to play a musical instrument.
All Kids Need Music is a non-profit organization staffed with professional trauma-trained music teachers. The organization provides the musical instrument of the child’s choice or voice lessons (ten instruments to choose from). Lessons are conducted online to eliminate transportation barriers and maintain a consistent teacher/mentor relationship because children in foster care frequently move from group home to group home. Changing group homes hampers the foster child’s ability to build trusting adult relationships with care providers, teachers, etc. Consistency with the child’s music instructor rebuilds trust in caring adults.
The trauma trained teacher gently mentors the abused child while creating a positive outlet for emotional expression, which is key to healing. The All Kids Need Music program for Arizona’s orphans also gives each wounded child ownership – their own musical instrument, the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular activities, and a growing set of musical skills to build self esteem.
Word is getting around – as orphaned foster children discover that other foster children are taking music lessons, they want to take lessons as well. All Kids Need Music urgently needs corporate and individual sponsors to cover the costs of the lessons and instruments so that every orphaned Arizona child that wants to take music or voice lessons can do so. Helping Arizona orphans heal from horrific abuse that no child should ever endure is something every caring Arizonan and Arizona business can do something about. Child sponsorship information is available online at www.allkidsneedmusic.academy.
About Vickie Isaac, M.Ed, All Kids Need Music Founding Board Member, President/CEO of Elevate Marketing
Mrs. Isaac served as the Director of Communications for the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Recognizing that Arizona orphans need more than the government can provide, she founded We Are Their Future, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding adoptive families for children in foster care. In addition, through her work as President/CEO of Elevate Marketing, she and her company serve non-profit organizations that make a difference in the lives of children. Mrs. Isaac is honored to serve as a founding board member of All Kids Need Music, helping facilitate the organization’s growth in order to serve more orphaned children.
About All Kids Need Music
All Kids Need Music is an IRS recognized 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide at risk, underprivileged children with the transformative power of music education to improve their physical, social, emotional and cognitive outcomes. Information about All Kids Need Music is available at www.allkidsneedmusic.academy
We Are Their Future is always working diligently to help children around the country find a forever home full of love and security. Children living in foster care have experienced such heartbreak, abandonment, and sadness in their young lives. No child should have to feel what so many children experience every day when losing their family. Adoptive families have the amazing opportunity to change a child’s life forever by giving them the answer to their prayers – a forever home full of love, laughter, and life. Building Arizona Families offers a beautiful program for forever families adoption services called the Forever Families U.S. Adoption Program.
The Forever Families Adoption Services Available with Building Arizona Families Arizona Adoption Agency
Who is Eligible to Adopt Foster Children?
Our Forever Families U.S. Adoption Program is an incredible program for adoptive families who live in Arizona. Arizona families can adopt foster children in Arizona and throughout the United States who have been found legally eligible for adoption.
Building Arizona Families does direct adoption placements. This means that the adoptive family is not foster care certified but licensed to adopt through a home study; making these direct adoptions. To adopt foster children in Arizona or from around the country, the foster children come to live in your home. After approximately six months, your family legally adopts the children.
What is a Home Study?
Home studies are mandatory for every adoptive family in the United States, whether they are adopting a child domestically or internationally. Our home study reports satisfy the State of Arizona’s legal requirements as well as the requirements for domestic adoptions in other states, international adoptions, and all out-of-state adoption agencies coordinating child placements.
Our goal is to make the home study a positive experience and support you in becoming adoptive parents. We offer resource materialsand personal support. Learn more about building a home study HERE.
What is the Process of Adopting a Foster Child Through the Forever Families U.S. Adoption Program?
The necessary steps to adopt foster kids in Arizona or from around the country are similar and apply to Arizona families as follows:
– Choose the type of adoption
– Select an agency or facilitator
– Complete a home study
– Wait for a placement
– Finalize the adoption
If you feel called to open your heart and home to a foster child in need of a loving and forever home, please download our info kit HERE for more information about our forever families adoption services. We are thrilled to help families on their adoption journey and to find beautiful homes for children in need. Learn more about other adoption programs with Building Arizona Families, HERE.
Foster Children Are Just Children Wanting a Family to Love and Accept Them
Building Arizona Families invites you to consider adopting a foster child. Remember, contrary to what many people believe, you do not have to foster to adopt foster children. We will help you walk through the direct adoption of children in the foster care system. Download our foster child adoption info kit HERE. Learn more about the Forever Families Program Building Arizona Families offers to adopt foster children HERE. You can change the life of a foster child forever! Learn more about how We Are Their Future supports foster children in Arizona and around the U.S., HERE.
We also invite you to attend one of our informative adoption seminars. You can reach out to Ixcel Baca, Program Coordinator, directly and ask any questions you might have. Ixcel would love to hear from you! You can reach Ixcel at (623) 696-9537 or by e-mailing her at ixcelbaca@buildingarizonafamilies.com.
There are over 3,000 children in foster care in Arizona alone that are legally eligible to be adopted right now. As heartbreaking as it is, these children’s biological parents no longer have parental rights. These children desperately need a family to offer them support, care, love, and, more importantly, a forever home. Married couples, families, and even single applicants can be eligible to adopt foster children who are eagerly waiting for a family. A foster child’s life is restored when they are welcomed into a safe, loving, and permanent home with their forever family.
Building Arizona Families Encourages Us to Adopt Arizona Foster Children
Are you wondering if you are eligible to adopt children from Arizona foster care? To adopt children from foster care in Arizona or around the U.S., applicants need to be living in Arizona and found legally eligible to adopt a child or teen in foster care. Applicants do not need to be foster care certified to adopt foster children in Arizona but certified to adopt through a home study. For approximately six months, a child will be welcomed into the adoptive home before being legally adopted. Learn more about the requirements to adopt Arizona foster children HERE.
The majority of foster children are five years of age or older. There are also sibling groups or children who have a higher level of need. All children in the foster system deserve to feel the stability and love of a forever family. Download our Adopting Foster Children Information Guide HERE.
We Need Men and Women to Make a Difference in the Lives of Children in Arizona and Around the United States
Foster children need reliable and safe adults to help turn their life away from loneliness, abuse, and/or neglect. Because of the circumstances children in foster care may experience daily, foster children struggle to form crucial bonds with safe and supportive adults. Becoming a forever parent to a foster child, who no longer has a family of their own, will fill them purpose and begin to instill trust and important values into their lives.
Building Arizona Families would be honored to walk with you on your journey to adopt foster children in Arizona. As a non-profit, licensed Arizona adoption agency, we have helped families with the adoption process since 2004. Please reach out to Ixcel Baca, Program Manager for the Forever Families foster adoption program at Building Arizona Families, by phone at 623-696-9537 and by e-mail ixcelbaca@buildingarizonafamilies.com. Building Arizona Families also offers free adoption information seminars online, be sure to reach out to Ixcel for upcoming seminar dates and times!