Adoption Awareness Month 2024

#FosterChildFindFamily

November is marked as Adoption Awareness Month each year. By welcoming the year 2024, to draw attention on adoption-related issues, with a particular emphasis on the adoption of children who are older aged, require special need or currently in foster care, CARA celebrating Adoption Awareness Month 2024. This year's theme is "Rehabilitation of Older Children through Foster Care & Foster Adoption"

(Hashtag) FosterChildFindFamily: Foster care is an arrangement whereby a child lives, usually on a temporary basis, with unrelated family members. A child shall be preferably placed with child’s extended family or with close friends of the family who are known to child and when such options are either not available or not willing to take care of the child, the child may be placed in foster care. While placing a child in foster care, preference shall be given to those families that share similar cultural, tribal and /or community connection. Children in the age group of 6-18 years, whose parents are unable to take care of them due to reasons such as mental illness, poverty or imprisonment and those staying in child care institutions placed in foster care.

Family or a family like environment is most conducive for a child and every child has the right to grow in such an environment.