DCF Launches Campaign for Adoption in Florida

November is National Adoption Month, and the Florida Department of Children and Families kicked it off by launching a new online campaign on Friday called 30 Days of Amazing Children: Exploring Adoption,which will highlight Florida children available for adoption throughout the state and help them find forever families.

There are currently about 750 children in Floridas foster care program who are currently available for adoption, and every day in November the campaign will feature a different video of a teen or sibling group on the states Adopt Florida website at www.adoptflorida.org.

These children ask for the one thing many of us take for granted, and because of that they are ready to give a lot of love and joy to a family, DCF Interim Secretary Esther Jacobo said. Imagine a child without someone special to guide and protect them, to share successes and heartaches with, to share a holiday with, and then imagine the wonderful possibilities that could come from making a place in your own family for a child.

Last year the department and its community-based partners found families for 3,353 Florida children, 100 more than the year before.

National Adoption Month is an exciting time for our community-based care lead and provider agencies. Our unique community-based system has made us a leader nationally for the number of adoptions taking place each month across the state, said Kurt Kelly, Florida Coalition for Children CEO. During National Adoption Day we celebrate the thousands of adoptions that have been finalized in the last year and the hard work of our child welfare agencies' staff and volunteers to ensure every child in Florida has a forever family.