Voice for Adoption

Special Projects

VFA's Annual Adoptive Family Portrait Project 

       

Adoptive Family Portrait Project 

Every November, for National Adoption Awareness Month, Voice for Adoption (VFA) hosts a signature project called the Adoptive Family Portrait Project. Each year we celebrate families who have adopted children from foster care. The primary goal of the project is to raise awareness among members of Congress about the real experiences and needs of families that have adopted children who were in the foster care system. 

Ways to Be Involved:

  • Identify adoptive families to feature—VFA is looking for adoptive families (specifically families who have adopted older youth and teens) whose family portraits will be displayed in the Washington, DC office of their member of Congress. VFA will also need information about each family’s adoption experiences in order to share stories with members of Congress. VFA will match Senators and Representatives with a family from their home state or home district (for Representatives). Each participating family will receive a copy of our Adoptive Family Portrait Project booklet that features the families and Members of Congress that are involved. Email voiceforadoption@gmail.com to identify a family. 

  • Encourage your members of Congress to participate—Please contact your Senators and Representative's offices to encourage them to be part of the Adoptive Family Portrait Project. Hearing from constituents will make it more likely that members of Congress will participate. VFA can provide a template for e-mailing your members of Congress about the project. Contact us for help with reaching out to your members of Congress to be involved. 

  • Sponsor our project—VFA has sponsorship opportunities for every budget, making it possible for individuals and organizations to provide financial support for this project. All sponsors will be acknowledged in the program booklet, and higher-level sponsors receive additional benefits, including featured recognition at the Capitol Hill reception. Contact VFA for a detailed list of sponsorship opportunities. Click here for a detailed list of sponsorship opportunities.

Listen to 10 year-old Cody Kerin, a Colorado adoptee, share his feelings about being adopted. Cody presented his Adoption Day poem at our 2010 kick-off event last November. 

 

 

Cookbooks

Voice for Adoption’s cookbook, Recipes and Memories, is about food, but it is also about families. It is intended to get grubby and worn and touched by many loving hands - old and young. Our hope is this cookbook will recall old memories and establish new ones. Our dream is that it will help bring our nation's waiting children to families where they can make a lifetime of happy memories. The cookbook is filled with delicious adoption stories you’ll never forget and 445 fabulous recipes you will want to try…after you wipe your eyes. Click here to download the order form.

"Being adopted meant having a 'permanent' family; no more fear of being taken in the middle of the night to another foster home. -18 y.o. Adoptee, Ohio"