Meet adoptive mom Kathy Searle. Kathy is also the vice president of Utah programs for Raise the Future.

Andrea Sanders has been the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services since November 2020. She says, "Every day I throw on my CAPE ([which is an acronym for her] core values of Compassion, Accountability, Professionalism, and Excellence) and I challenge my staff to do the same. Our work is too important to not give it our all each and every day. It is truly a new day at MDCPS, and I implore my fellow professionals and all Mississippians to lock arms with us to protect our children by investing in Mississippi families.

Meet adoptive mom of a sibling pair - Kara. 

You'll learn about how she handled the adventure and uncertainties of the foster care system.

Meet Ryan Hanlon the President & CEO for the National Council For Adoption.

Dive deeper into the research report Ryan discusses: adoptioncouncil.org/profiles

Need continuing education as an adoption professional, consider the NCFA Conference - adoptioncouncil.org/ncfa-conference.

Meet Thea Ramirez, the founder and Amy Simpson, the director of programs for Adoption-Share.

Meet Adam Gunn the co-founder of Seventh Avenue Creative and the incredibly talented illustrator of my new children's book Mallory Cheatham.

Rob experienced the foster care system as a child and then, as an adult, started a nonprofit called Comfort Cases which assembles care packs for children in foster care.  To date, his organization has impacted over 185,000 children in the foster care system. Rob has adopted 5 children through the foster care system and is the author of his memoir called A Forever Family: Fostering One Child at a Time.

Meet Chef Kibby - biological, foster, and adoptive dad. During the pandemic he pivoted from a catering business to helping foster and adoptive parents connect with their children through the shared act of cooking and eating together.

Meet Shari Shink, child welfare advocate. She spent 33 years as a lawyer, founded the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center (the first non-profit law firm for abused and neglected children), and most recently, founded Cobbled Streets, a nonprofit that goes 'upstream' to serve younger foster children, promoting their health, growth, and development and preventing them from emancipating from the foster care system to the streets and homelessness.