DTFA: Foster Care Adoption Awareness

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is driven by a single goal: finding a loving family for every child waiting in foster care to get adopted. We are America’s only national nonprofit charity dedicated solely to finding permanent homes for the more than 100,000 children in foster care.

How we work:

• Award grants to adoption organizations that connect children with families.
• Increase awareness across the nation about waiting children and the process to adopt.
• Raise funds to support our awareness and education programs.
• Provide free resources to professionals and prospective and adoptive parents.

Our Core Beliefs:

• Every child deserves a safe, loving, and permanent family.
• No child should linger in foster care or leave the system at age 18 without a permanent family of his or her own.
• Every child is adoptable.

Videos from this campaign

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives | Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

Keeping Siblings Together in Foster Care. It Matters…A LOT

Apr 10, 2018 10:00 AM ET

This guest blog was written by Rachel Adler, a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiter in Northwest, Ohio. She works diligently to get to know each child, giving them an opportunity to let their voice be heard throughout the adoption process. It was originally shared in April 2017. We are republishing it in honor of National Siblings Day. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption works on behalf of the children who have waited the longest in foster care for a loving home. We focus on older children, sibling groups and children with special needs. Rachel shares how she fought to keep a pair of brothers together in a system that tried to pull them apart.

Social Impact & Volunteering | Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

When I First Met My Child

Apr 21, 2016 12:10 PM ET

Families come in all shapes and sizes and not all families meet on the day a child is born. Did you know there are over 130,000 children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the U.S. and Canada? That is more than 130,000 children who just want a forever family, someone to help them with their homework and tuck them in at night.

Social Impact & Volunteering | Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

Unadoptable is Unacceptable

Apr 26, 2016 11:05 AM ET

At the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, we believe that “unadoptable” is unacceptable. Each year 23,000 children age out of the foster care system in the United States without being adopted into a forever family. To us, that is unacceptable.

Social Impact & Volunteering | Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

I Am

Apr 13, 2016 10:35 AM ET

Children in foster care face stereotypes that simply aren’t true. These children are not trouble makers, too old or unable to live with a family; they are not unadoptable. Children come into care because they have been abused or neglected. Through no fault of their own, they are removed from their homes.

Social Impact & Volunteering | Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

I'm Just a Kid

Apr 11, 2016 11:05 AM ET

Children of all ages have dreams and that doesn’t stop just because they enter the fostercare system. Hear the dreams of the children being helped by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters.