You can raise awareness for National Adoption Month in your community by:

• Using our National Adoption Month Recruitment and Marketing Toolkit (566 KB, 64 pages, PDF) that provides information on:
  • Marketing to and recruiting prospective families
  • Reaching out to the media
  • Planning special events to raise awareness
  • Garnering support from your local government and community
• Using the day-by-day schedule the Child Welfare Information Gateway has assembled for hosting National Adoption Month activities
• Registering your organization with AdoptUsKids to add profiles of your families and children to our national database, which increases their chances of finding a successful match
• Raising awareness of the need for foster and adoptive parents by telling people about the You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be a Perfect Parent campaign

Find out more about how you can help us promote National Adoption Month this November.