Nearly 800 Children Adopted Last Year through Children's Home Society of Florida

Release date: 11/1/2010

WINTER PARK, Fla., (Nov. 1, 2010) — Children’s Home Society of Florida finalized 788 adoptions during the 2009-2010 fiscal year; 736 were adoptions of children from foster care. Children’s Home Society of Florida has finalized more than 37,000 adoptions since inception.

Since 2007, Children’s Home Society of Florida has finalized more than 25 percent of Florida’s 12,000-plus adoptions of children from foster care.

“Every finalized adoption is a reason to celebrate,” says David A. Bundy, President and CEO of Children’s Home Society of Florida. “Though the numbers are impressive, we always remember that we’re about people. Every finalization represents a family brought together, a child welcomed home – forever.”

Children’s Home Society of Florida recently received national recognition for stellar adoption work, earning an Adoption Excellence Award from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. One of only 10 award winners throughout the country, Children’s Home Society of Florida was honored for exceptional work in the Adoption of Minority Children from Foster Care. Of the 3,200-plus adoptions Children’s Home Society of Florida finalized during the past four years, more than 1,400 (44 to 47 percent each year) were adoptions of minority children.

To celebrate these families – and the countless others created through adoption – the country recognizes National Adoption Awareness Month each November. The month also serves to raise awareness for the 114,000 U.S. children in foster care still waiting for their “forever families.”

Children’s Home Society of Florida provides foster care, private domestic and international adoption services, including birth mother counseling and pre- and post- adoption support and counseling for all parties involved in the adoption.

About Children's Home Society of Florida
Created in 1902, Children's Home Society of Florida is the oldest and largest statewide private not-for-profit provider of services to children and families in Florida. The organization offers a full spectrum of prevention and intervention programs that include foster care, adoption, child development, emergency shelters, residential group homes, independent and transitional living for teens, parent education, counseling, mentoring, treatment for developmentally disabled children, and more. Children’s Home Society of Florida, which served more than 97,000 children and families throughout the state in 2008-2009, is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and offers services in more than 100 locations by more than 1,500 staff members dedicated to providing child-focused, family-centered care.

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