As mentioned in previous blog posts, the Child Welfare Information Gateway is an incredible resource for adoptive families. Adoption STAR highly value...
May is Foster Care Month
Get inspired during National Foster Care Month 2014! View real-life stories about children, youth, and families involved with child welfare. Share the...
Adoption STAR Staff Responses to This Month’s Film Clip
Here are some Adoption STAR staff reactions to the latest film clip we watched as a part of our TV/Film clip viewing project. See our Facebook post on...
What We Wish You Understood
In honor of National Foster Care Month and in celebration of those children who joined their forever families as “older” children, we present W...
Answers to Questions Regarding the Universal Accreditation Act
We submitted our questions to the Department of State and USCIS and now they, along with COA, will give us answers and information at a Free UAA Updat...
Interning at Adoption STAR
It is hard to find words to best describe my feelings surrounding my last semester as a graduate student. It is even more difficult to find the words ...
This Week’s Annual Staff Training and Dinner
Every year, Adoption STAR hosts an annual staff training and dinner (typically in the spring), a mandatory event for Adoption STAR staff. All employee...
A Final Call to Action: Help Save the Adoption Tax Credit
Calls to Action: Use this last week of the Grassroots Campaign to check congress.gov and see which Members of Congress have become cosponsors of S.105...
“No One Is Going To Pick Me”
Finally your home study is complete and you have your first “profiling opportunity!” The excitement turns to disappointment as you realize that it...
The Call – Part 2
There are very few moments in life in which every detail is etched into our memories. Maybe you can remember what song was playing on the radio, what ...