Meet the eight generous organizations participating in sponsorship of this annual event and learn how their donations will help serve Adoptions From The Heart’s mission. Adoptions From The Heart (AFTH), as part of its lifelong commitment to building beautiful families, is gearing up for its annual picnic, one of the biggest events of the year, aimed [...]
Here at Adoptions From The Heart, we have recently welcomed three new staff members to help us in our mission to build beautiful families. We asked the three ladies a little bit about themselves, why they were excited about working with AFTH, and what they didn’t know about adoption before starting here. Meet the new [...]
Mother's Day as a Birthmother For most people, Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate the women who raised them and gave them life. For others, women like myself, Mother’s Day can be polarizing. Although birth mothers have our own special day now (Birth Mother’s Day, the Saturday before Mother’s Day), the loss of our [...]
Last week, National Infertility Awareness Week was in full swing at Adoptions From The Heart. Not every family who comes through our doors has dealt with infertility, but many have, and we’ve helped them find the beautiful families they have always wanted. To help raise awareness, we took to social media to see what families [...]
The adoption community is large and a lot of people are sharing their perspective and experiences. Here are more blogs from fellow members of the adoption community that might assist you in the ongoing journey that is adoption. Adoptive Families Waltzing in Galoshes One family’s journey through infertility, adoption and parenthood. http://davidandelizabethadopt.blogspot.com/ White Sugar [...]
A recent Fox News story detailed a new bill that could make it easier for people to adopt in Pennsylvania. In fact, there are a whole collection of bills all related to updating the PA Adoption statute. We took a read through the legislation to learn about what is being covered and wanted to share [...]
We recently interviewed an international adoptee, Danielle, who was kind enough to answer some of our questions about her adoption! You were adopted from Korea, what was it like growing up in a family with parents of a different race? As long as I can remember, I always knew I was adopted and always knew [...]
On Sunday, April 10th runners and walkers alike with head out on the Adoptions From The Heart Find Her Footing 5K course, will you be joining them? About the Find Her Footing 5K The Find Her Footing 5K Run/Walk & Kid's Dash will take place on Sunday, April 10th 2016 at Delaware County Community College [...]
March is National Social Work month and we sat down with some of the Adoptions From The Heart social workers to learn more about what they do and why they do it. Educating the Community In the social work world there is no normal day, but there are things that AFTH social workers try and [...]
As Adoption From The Heart continues to explore LGBT resources made available by the Human Rights Campaign and their All Children All Families initiative, we delved deeper into a practice brief from San Francisco State University. Caitlin Ryan, Ph. D., A.C.S.W., Director of the Family Acceptance Project at the school developed a practice brief for [...]
