Concert Tour to Benefit Lifesong for Orphans

YOU ARE INVITED... You are invited to family friendly concert featuring multiple award-winning Christian musical family group, The Isaacs, and veteran ventriloquist and comedian, Taylor Mason. Please share this event with your family and friends -- we hope to see you there!   Location & Ticket Information: Tickets are $14.00 plus processing fees sold through Eventbrite.com. They will also be available at each venue.   Van Wert, OH @ Niswonger Performing Arts Center September 19, 2013, 6:30pm     Indianapolis, IN @ Pike Performing Arts Center September 20, 2013, 6:30pm     Washington, IL @ Five Points Performing Arts Center September 21, 2013, 6:30pm   Not familiar with these performers? Watch these performance videos from The Isaacs and Taylor Mason .   A love offering will be taken during the concert, with 100% of the offering going towards the ministry of Lifesong for Orphans.    Lifesong has been blessed with a partner that underwrites all US administrative and fundraising costs (TMG Foundation and other partners). That means 100% of your donation will go directly to the need...helping orphans. Learn More

Webinar: Is It An Adoption Thing?

 

August, 7th 2013

 7:00 PM Central

Q&A: 8:00 PM 

 

When your child exhibits challenging or frustrating behaviors, do you struggle to determine when to point to adoption and when to assume it's just kid's stuff?

 

Because many families face the difficult task of sorting out if behaviors and challenges are adoption related or not, we've asked an expert to help!

 

Join Dr. Gregory Keck, Director of the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio, as he discusses the impact of adoption and trauma on child development.

This webinar will:

• Discuss common challenging behaviors adopted children may exhibit
• Offer real life examples and suggestions for handling these behaviors
• Examine effective and ineffective parenting tools

 

 

 

Submit your questions to our panel here

National Foster Care Adoption Attitudes Survey

U.S. researchThe 2013 National Foster Care Adoption Attitudes Survey was commissioned by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption to better understand Americans’ attitudes about adoption. The Foundation partnered with Harris Interactive to survey more than 1,400 American adults online.

For the first time since 2002, the survey found that opinions of foster care adoption are more positive than private domestic infant adoption and international adoption. While the perception of foster care adoption has improved, Americans – even those who are considering foster care adoption – still have a negative impression of the process, the costs, and potential behavioral and medical issues with children in foster care.

In the United States, there are more than 100,000 children in the foster care system available for adoption and more than 26,000 age out of the foster care system every year without families. Understanding Americans’ perceptions about adoption is important to finding a safe, loving and permanent family for every child.

We are addressing the myths and misperceptions that Americans have about foster care adoption, and by doing so, we can more effectively move children from foster care to the permanent and nurturing families we promised them.

Read the press release.
Read the 2013 National Foster Care Adoption Attitudes Survey.