Learn about foster care and adoption in this 7 Questions with Emmy interview
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Nov. 18 is National Adoption Day and the theme in Bonneville County is Building a Family.
National Adoption Day is a collective effort to raise awareness of the more than 120,000 children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the United States. A coalition of national partners – the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Alliance for Children’s Rights and Children’s Action Network – founded National Adoption Day.
Today I’m chatting with Camille Rigby about adoption and foster care. Camille works for Fostering Idaho as part of the Family Resource & Training Center. Here’s what I asked her:
- What is National Adoption Day?
- What is foster care?
- How many kids in foster care are permanently adopted every year?
- How many kids are in foster care?
- What does someone need to do to become a foster parent?
- Why did you become a foster mom and what have you learned doing it?
- What do you want people to know about foster care and adoption?
Watch my entire interview with Camille in the video player above and learn more about foster care here.
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