National Adoption Month 

November is National Adoption Month. This year's initiative targets adoption professionals by focusing on ways to recruit and retain parents for the 115,000 children and youth in foster care waiting for adoptive families. For more information, visit http://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/nam/index.cfm.

Nov. 20 is National Adoption Day, a day to celebrate adoptive families and an opportunity for courts to finalize the adoptions of children from foster care. Since 2000, more than 30,000 children have had their adoptions finalized on National Adoption Day.

On Nov. 20, families, adoption advocates, policymakers, judges and volunteers will promote adoption in communities all across the nation. Tools and resources for planning an event can be accessed at http://www.nationaladoptionday.org/get-involved