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What Is Adopt Us Kids or AdoptUsKids?

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Question: What Is Adopt Us Kids or AdoptUsKids?
Answer:

AdoptUsKids, through a collaboration with the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children & Families, and the US Department of Health & Human Services, is a website that works to help recruit, train, and match foster and adoptive parents with the waiting children of the United States.

Registration and participation on Adopt Us Kids is free for prospective adoptive families who have a completed adoption homestudy or for the adoption professional.

AdoptUsKids provides a photolistings of waiting children across the United States. These are children within the U.S. foster care system who are waiting for an adoptive family.

The Ad Council, who provides public service announcements, proudly states on their website that since 2003, Adopt Us Kids is coming closer to their goal as more than 8,000 children have been adopted through AdoptUSKids.

AdoptUsKids may also be seen as Adopt Us Kids.

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