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 Featured youth
 Brittany, 16, is an outgoing young teen who likes to find fun in all that she does. Caring and helpful, Brittany enjoys cooking and helping around the house. She has a great sense of humor and is quick to smile and laugh.
Brittany does well in school, where her favorite subject is health. She is interested in learning to play the bass guitar and really likes art.
Brittany gets along with peers as long as they respect her space. She will listen to adults when they ask her to do things. Brittany says that she would like to become a part of a family that has animals. Read more
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 Featured siblings
 Edwin, 12, Isaac, 10, Valentina, 8, and Valencia, 7, need a two-parent home that has enough love for all four of them.
Edwin, the oldest, is very social and likes telling stories, going to the park, skating, and playing video games. Brother Isaac is a smart, outgoing, and social young man who likes to play with his toys and action figures.
Valentina and Valencia are loving girls. Valentina loves sports, including basketball and tetherball, and enjoys school. Valencia likes to have fun and be creative, especially while coloring and drawing pictures.
These siblings need a loving forever home that is patient and willing to work with them to support their success. Read more
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Keiessence and Breanna
Age: 11, 10
Location: North Carolina
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Ask a resource specialist
 Each day, foster care and adoption resource specialists at AdoptUSKids answer questions from people across the country who want to know more about becoming a foster parent and the children who are waiting for adoption. Here is one of those conversations.
After a lot of thought and discussion, we started our adoption approval process in November. Our caseworker doesn’t think it will be done until March or April, partially because our classes don’t start until January. Children shouldn’t have to go through another Christmas without someone who is going to be in their life for forever. How can I skip the classes?
Thank you for understanding the impact on children and youth when they don’t understand who they can rely upon, especially during times that are associated with the importance of family. Many people can relate to your anxiousness to help them now.
However, the classes that you will complete are an important part of preparing you to parent children who entered foster care due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment and who will need you to be an essential part of their healing process. These classes are effort and time that you will spend on being self-reflective about your parenting skills, learning new parenting techniques that are important for foster and adoptive families to know, and understanding how to talk with children and youth about their experiences, feelings, birth family, and more. Your preparation and the importance of learning won’t stop with your adoption, but it is important to start with this valuable experience.
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During National Adoption Month in November, thousands of families legalized their adoptions and continued their journey together as a new, larger family. One very important part of that journey is talking with children and youth about adoption and helping them to handle questions about adoption.
News and announcements
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