NASW - National Association of Social Workers

12/17/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 12/17/2024 09:36

EP 125: Forever Family for Children in Foster Care

For more than 30 years, Rita Soronen, President and CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has worked on behalf of abused, neglected and vulnerable children, providing leadership for local, state and national efforts working to improve the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Leading the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a national, nonprofit public charity, since 2001 and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption-Canada since 2004, Ms. Soronen works to find forever families for the more than 140,000 waiting children in North America's foster care systems.

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The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption YouTube Channel also offers hundreds of videos highlighting families who adopted through its signature program, the voices of their adoption recruiters and a series of videos from youth who aged out of care and wish they had been adopted.

Posted Dec 17, 2024

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