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Advocacy isn’t a cause, it's a calling

Inspired by our faith, we believe everyone deserves to be loved, connected, and safe. By becoming an advocate, you can help change policies, change perspectives, and change lives.

Advocacy isn’t a cause, it's a calling

Inspired by our faith, we believe everyone deserves to be loved, connected, and safe. By becoming an advocate, you can help change policies, change perspectives, and change lives.

Major issues facing children and families

We’re thrilled you're interested in becoming an advocate. Your efforts can make a difference in the key issues affecting children and families. The world is watching our actions, more than listening to our words.

Vulnerable kids in the U.S.

In the U.S. alone, more than 125,000 children are in need of adoption from foster care, especially older children and children with special placement needs. Meanwhile, children are continuing to enter the foster care system at an alarming rate.

Global Family Needs

Research shows that children thrive when they belong to a loving family. So, rather than placing children in orphanages, we find a family in a child's country who shares their culture and language.

Refugees & Immigrants

Nearly 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes, a number greater than the combined populations of California and Texas. Children, who comprise about 30% of the world’s population, account for half of the world’s refugees.

Unaccompanied children

The U.S. government estimates that 2,737 children were separated from their families during the implementation of the zero tolerance policy. Family and community-based care ensure that children who have fled for their lives are cared for, kept safe, and quickly reunified with their families.

Your advocacy matters

Each of us seeks love and connection. But our world knows a million ways to break. The largest refugee crisis in history separates children from their parents. War and famine destroy families’ homes and livelihoods. The opioid epidemic leaves children scared and alone.

When we lift our voices, we can collectively advance policies that protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Why we fight for children and families

Inspired by our faith, we seek to love our neighbors and welcome foreigners. We will never stop fighting for vulnerable people and the love and safety they seek.

Because no matter what forces pull us apart, there’s a greater force that brings us together: family.

“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.”

- Isaiah 1:17

Op-eds to read and share

We need a more sustainable solution to the global orphan crisis

Kristi Gleason explains why orphanages are not the answer for children in need around the world—and demonstrates why family-based care is the better solution.

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Black children in foster care need relief from systemic racism, too. Read more about it.

We need to do a better job of investing in diverse social workers who reflect the race or ethnicity of the clients we serve. Data from 2017 shows that more than two-thirds of social workers are white.

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Opinion: Need for helping refugees is greater than ever

Our nation looks a lot different today than it did just three months ago. As we continue to battle the spread of COVID-19, we’re confronting injustice, inequality, racism and pent-up anger stemming from broken systems that have never been fixed.

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