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I was adopted at five weeks old and told about it so young I don’t ever remember not knowing. I didn’t experience adoption trauma until I hit 40 when I found out my childhood teddy bear was a [...]

National Grief Awareness Day is August 30. Everyone experiences grief and loss throughout their lives. As families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship care, or another type of out-of-home [...]

One of the challenges of transracial adoption and foster care is gaining the knowledge to bring your children’s birth culture into their lives. Some families adopt transracially, without the [...]

Ready to give back? Make a personal donation or direct some of Thrivent’s charitable funds to the Coalition. Thrivent clients with membership have unique opportunities to help the Coalition for [...]

Bridge to Brighter provides housing and supportive programming, services, and resources to help youth in and aging out of foster care make a successful transition to adulthood. Their mission is [...]

Back to school time is almost here! Does that sentence make you think, “Wait a minute … it’s only early August!” or “That seems about right.” What emotions do you think that statement brings to [...]

Have you started shopping for back-to-school supplies? Are you using Walmart for your shopping needs? Then use this opportunity to support the Coalition! You can round up your change and donate [...]