Jewish Children’s Adoption Network

I realized I had not yet posted about this great resource. The Jewish Children’s Adoption Network is not an agency, rather they serve to connect potential adoptive parents with Rabbis, social workers, agencies, attorneys and birth families, who know of Jewish babies and children in need of a home. It is a non-profit organization and has about 100 children referred each year. The majority of the children referred tend to be drug exposed, or have physical or mental issues, although there is a thorough registration form on their website where you can indicate exactly what ages you are looking for, as well as what “issues” you would be okay dealing with.

Our primary goal is to find Jewish homes for Jewish children. We have worked on over 1,300 cases since 1990, and charge no fees for any of our services, which include helping a birth family parent a child, locating resources for help with personal problems or coping with a child’s limitations, helping an adoptive family find resources for adoption or parenting, helping families negotiate adoption subsidies, and helping biological and adoptive triad members in getting a search started.

They are looking for Jewish families of all affiliations (or no affiliation).

This is also from their website which I liked alot:

What Elisheva Didn’t Miss

Lighting Shabbat candles with Mommy
Going to shul on Shabbat
Her own siddur and chumash
Davening under her Daddy’s tallit
Singing Birkat Hamazon with her sisters
Her brother’s bar-mitzvah
Modeh Ani
eating kosher food
mezuot on the door
bubbe & zayde
Friday night zmirot
learning the aleph-bet
apples and honey on Rosh Hashona
hearing Kol Nidre
eating in her sukkah
a lulov and etrog
lighting Chanuka candles
playing Queen Esther
Mishloach manot
cleaning for Pesach with Mommy
asking the Four Questions
finding the afikoman
cheesecake on Shavuot

These are just a few of the many Jewish experiences that Elisheva did not miss because she was adopted by a Jewish family. There are, however, many Jewish children in the United States who aren’t as lucky. They haven’t found a Jewish family, and won’t have these experiences or memories. The Jewish Children’s Adoption Network was established to help these children find an appropriate Jewish home

The contact information for the Jewish Children’s Adoption Network is:

Jewish Children’s Adoption Network
P.O. Box 147016
Denver CO 80214-7016
Phone: 303-573-8113
E-mail address: jcan@qwest.net

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