Nov 15, 05
FPA training 7 pm @
Royal Baptist Church
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Tanner Behavior Health
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Nov. 19, 05
Positive Parenting
3 credit hrs 9 am-12 pm
Location: Griffin, GA
Nov. 24, 05
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Dec. 3, 05
Classroom Management
3 credit hrs 9 am-12pm
Location: Sargent, GA
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Dec. 5, 05
5-8 pm
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With Michael Dukakis
in the event. 2004 - 3,400 adoptions
finalized at 200 events in 37 states.
My Administration remains committed to
encouraging adoption. This year, 24 States,
the District of Columbia, and the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico were
recognized through our Adoption Incentives
Program for their efforts to enhance their
adoption and child welfare programs. These
efforts have contributed to an increase in
adoptions from 28,000 per year in 1996 to
an estimated 51,000 in 2004. In addition,
the AdoptUSKids initiative, which includes
public service announcements in English and
Spanish and a website,
www.AdoptUSKids.org, has helped place
more than 5,000 children in permanent
homes over the last 3 years.
As we observe National Adoption Month,
we recognize the many caring families who
have made a difference in a child's life
through adoption. By giving these children
the love, guidance, and support they need
to grow, adoptive and foster families play a
vital role in helping the next generation of
Americans achieve their dreams.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W.
BUSH, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim
November 2005 as National Adoption
Month. I call on all Americans to observe
this month with appropriate programs and
activities to honor adoptive families and to
participate in efforts to find permanent
homes for waiting children.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand this second day of
November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two
hundred and thirtieth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
For More Information on National
Adoption Day and to Find Activities in
Your Area:
National Adoption Day Website
www.nationaladoptionday.org
The National Foster Parent website is
wwwfpainc.org
Dukakis, announced an Adoption Week
for his state. Later that same year President
Gerald Ford proclaimed that Adoption
Week would be celebrated nationally. As
more and more states started to participate
in Adoption Week it became clear that
more time was needed for holding events
and in 1990 National Adoption Week
became National Adoption Month. Today
National Adoption Month is celebrated
during the month of Nov. The celebration
usually includes National Adoption Day
with courthouses throughout the nation
participating and hundreds of adoptions
being finalized at the same time. Every
year, thousands of Americans extend the
gift of family to a child through adoption.
During National Adoption Month, we
recognize the compassion of adoptive and
foster families and renew our pledge to
finding loving and stable homes for children
in need. Last year, an estimated 51,000
children were adopted from our Nation's
foster care system, and tens of thousands
more were adopted through private
agencies and from overseas.
Today, more than 118,000 children remain
in foster care in the U.S. awaiting adoption.
Goals of National Adoption Day 2005
finalize adoptions from foster care in all 50
states celebrate and honor all families that
adopt raise awareness about the 118,000
children in foster care waiting for adoption
encourage others to adopt children from
foster care build collaboration among local
adoption agencies, courts and advocacy
organizations through research, learn more
about families wanting to adopt and the
children waiting to be adopted, with the
goal of finding more permanent, loving
homes for children in foster care.
2000 - National Adoption Day began with
the Alliance for Children's Rights and
support from the Freddie Mac Foundation,
the Dave Thomas Foundation for
Adoption, and others. Hundreds of
adoptions were finalized in 9 jurisdictions.
2001 - The number of jurisdictions
increased to 17. 2002 - Assistance from
Casey Family Services, Children's Action
Network, the Congressional Coalition on
Adoption Institute and Target. This support
brought 34 jurisdictions to National
Adoption Day and 1,350 adoptions were
finalized. 2003 - 3,100 adoptions were
finalized and 120 jurisdictions participated
in the event. 2004 - 3,400 adoptions
finalized at 200 events in 37 states.
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