How A Family For Every Child Made A Difference In My Life

October 6th, 2012, at 1:28 pm the moment we be became a family. A moment I thought would never happen. We had spent months preparing; fire inspections, physicals and more paperwork than a mortgage. Then the day came when we were approved to adopt from the foster system. Like many of you are now, I was ready! Ready to find our child or children. But we were at the mercy of our social worker. Something I never realized was how completely stretched our social workers are. Mine had 80 families she was working with, 80 families who all had the same goal in mind finding their child. And then the night came when I had the director of the agency I was using sit down on my couch with my social worker and I when she told us that there are many families who may never get matched. Instantly I thought, how could this be??? Over 100,000 Waiting Children in this country and there are families who never get matched, I knew this was not right. That is when I emailed A Family For Every Child. I was soon contacted by a wonderful Family Specialist Diane. She immediately started sending me bios of children and assisted me when I did not hear back from agencies about children I was interested in. There were several times when Diane was able to get information that my social worker could not get. She also had information on children who were not listed on the sites I was previously looking at. I always felt Diane really cared about us and about helping us to be matched with a child or children who were meant to be in our family. In March of 2012 we were matched with a gorgeous 12 year old girl in Florida. We live in North Carolina, I point this out because I have found that many people do not know that you can adopt over state lines. The fact is you can!!! There are a few more steps to take through the Interstate Compact Act. I am forever grateful for all the help that A Family For Every Child provided to Today,I sit here the mom of an almost 13 year old daughter who is the joy of my life. So if you are reading this feeling down, feeling that you will never find your family, take a deep breath and click here http://www.afamilyforeverychild.org/AboutUs/Contact.php And let one of the A Family For Every Child Family Specialist help you to find your family. Because it is not a matter of if you will be adding to your family,it is now just a matter of when! Over the next few months I would love to share stories of how families were created through adopting from the foster system. If you would like to be a featured family please email me!! I look forward to sharing your story! ~Jenny