The Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association has proudly partnered with the United Way of Central Missouri, the Heart of Missouri United Way, & the United Way of Callaway County. These partnerships allow CMFCAA to strengthen outcomes for our most vulnerable children and the families who...
CMFCAA is committed to providing essential services and support to the kinship, foster, and adoptive communities in Central Missouri.
Steve Anderson-McLean said he and his husband were inspired to adopt siblings after seeing a story on TV about another couple who did the same. "Such a staggering amount of sibling groups are broken up and it broke our hearts," Steve Anderson-McLean said he learned in his research. T...
But today , peopl e ar e incre asingly willing to adopt thos e who ar e 9year s ol d or older , an d most erperts believ e th e p henomen a will continu e .Of course, th e teens often nee d as much enco uragement an d advic e as th e futur e parents d o . In...
According to the “Practitioner’s Guide” from AdoptUsKids, it’s an imperative agencies approach recruitment with patience, understanding and kindness. “Foster and adoptive parents are the most important resource we have to give the children we serve,” the guide states. “How you treat them...
"I am a former DSHS employee who taught foster parents, wrote curriculum, and worked with foster/adopt/relative placement families. I find myself now wearing the shoes of an adoptive parent of 9 and still required to meet the training requirements for foster care. I have taken just about ev...
Ten years ago,teenagers such as Amber were so hard to place with adoptive families that hardly anyone tried.If you talked about finding a home for an older child,that meant the kid was 7or 8.But today,people are increasingly willing to adopt those who are 9years old or older,and most ...
Mariel Frankel, 15-year board member ofAdopt-a-Familyjust released a film,Foster Shock, after witnessing Florida’s foster care failures as a Guardian Ad Litem. Frankel exposes how the system is more concerned with making a profit from abused and neglected children than caring for them....
Of course,the teens often need as much encouragement and advice as the future parents do.In St.Louis,Missouri,Project Teen Plus provides a support group to help teenagers talk about their fears and doubts about being adopted,for many of them have lived in institutions so long that they have...
aThe decision of a lifetime to open your heart and your home to adopt a child, an emotional choice that one aledged con artist may have exploited to scam would be parents. She promised them babies, but all they got was heartache until she was tracked down by Cbsnews Chief Investigation ...