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Update: Child 210-18JH

Submitted by jpflugi on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 2:55pm

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In the summer of 2010, Children's Home began featuring profiles of waiting children on our blog. The first child that we featured, 210-18JH, was an adorable 8-year-old boy who was waiting because of his age and a serious heart condition. That little boy joined his adoptive family just over a year later. Named Joshua, he is now tackling the challenges of his condition with the love and support of a mother, father and eight siblings.... Read more

Excerpt from Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison

Submitted by jpflugi on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 2:21pm

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By:

Deborah Jiang Stein, author, advocate and adopted adult

About Deborah Jiang Stein: Born to a heroin addict in prison, she then lived for her first year in prison, followed by foster care and later, a transracial adoption in an academic family. What followed, a life in the margins, took decades before she was able to come out the other side.... Read more

Jacob's Story

Submitted by jpflugi on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 4:04pm

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Jacob's Mom & Dad

With five children, our home was busy and full. We enjoyed life and loved spending each day growing and learning together as a family. However, even with a full house, we felt like something or someone was missing. Adoption was not new to our family. We had adopted one of our beautiful daughters from Kazakhstan almost 10 years ago. The feeling that we were missing a family member became overwhelming and we knew tha... Read more

The Photo

Submitted by jpflugi on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 3:04pm

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By:

Shirlee McCoy, author and mother of five through birth and adoption

Shirlee McCoy is a mother and author of numerous books. Among other places, her writing can be found on her blog, And Then There Were Seven. She has agreed to let us repost the following entry that was featured on the blog No Hands But Ours.

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General Mills Adoption Connections Group

Submitted by jpflugi on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 1:03pm

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Angie Checco de Souza, MSW, LGSW, CHSFS Outreach Specialist

I am so grateful for the wonderful panel of adult adoptees and adoptive parents who joined me at General Mills Adoption Connection group brown bag lunch yesterday. ... Read more

Adoption Story, Part 2

Submitted by jpflugi on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 11:53am

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Aimee, Mother and Blogger "Under the Evergreens"

With three birth children already in their home, Aimee and her husband embarked on their first adoption journey in 2000. Through research, they learned that little boys wait significantly longer for adoptive families than girls, and once they hit toddler age or are identified with any medical issues, their chances of being adopted become even slimmer. Already the parents of two wonderful boys (and one wonderful girl), Aimee and her husband decided to pursue the adoption of a little boy with a medical condition. &nb... Read more

People Incorporated Acquires Mental Health Programs

Submitted by abrendmoen on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 3:36pm

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By:

Amy Brendmoen, Press Release

People Incorporated Acquires Mental Health Programs from
Children’s Home Society & Family Services

Critical care maintained to over 1,000 clients in six-county metro area... Read more

YOU FOLLOW: A Search for One's Past

Submitted by abrendmoen on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 12:02pm

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By:

Nisha Grayson

“YOU FOLLOW: A Search for One's Past" is a documentary film that follows Nisha Grayson, an adoptee, as she adventures back to India to search for her birth mother.
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