National Adoption Month Postcard Pledge

Since November is National Adoption Month, I had a chance to participate in sending postcards to our state legislators asking them to support the desperate for post adopt services for children who have endured abuse, neglect and family trauma.

                                                 

We were given instructions of what we were going to be doing.








All we had to do was go to: www.Facebook.com/PreserveFamiliesWithRADChildrenNow
for EASY step-by-step instructions...

                                                                                                           

Then through Facebook, we were reminded about the desperate need for post adoption support and
services.

It was really easy because we were given instructions and a sample of what to write on our postcard.

Through Facebook we were given reminders of how many days were left.

We even had the option to create and purchase postcards online.

I decided to go online and create my own postcards and found it really simple and 

convenient. This is what I created for the front of my postcard.

Now to sit back and see if my postcards will generate any kind of response... 

A Broken Promise

November is National Adoption Month.  This month is used to create awareness of children that are in foster care and are waiting to be adopted.  Children that are looking for their forever family.  Then parents who decide to adopt are so full of hope.  The child is struggling with the effects of the early childhood trauma they have endured in their short life.  The adoptive parents are struggling to find the right help for their child.    The child's behaviors are severe.  More than most parents can handle.  The system that was so eager to have these parents adopt, now has no services to help keep this family together.   The system is broken and the parents are forced to relinquish the child they so love.  The child is subjected to more trauma and looses their forever home.  This is a poem I wrote about that broken promise.

A Broken Promise

 

A young child with many hurts so deep

Praying at night for a family to keep 
 

A Mom and a Dad working their hands to the bone

Waiting for the day to have a child of their own 
 

Finally a special child that they get to meet

Worried about what to say when they greet 
 

A child with hurts so incredible and deep

All that matters to all is a family to keep
 

Finally the long awaited adoption day is here

The family is formed with love so dear 
 

The past trauma ongoing and painful for all

Then parents are told there is no one to call 
 

The parents struggle to help their child to heal

Looking for solutions they can beg, borrow or steal 
 

The system lacks resources and is broken at best

The parents continually trying to keep a safe nest
  

The family is broken with no where to turn

The child must leave their home they soon learn 
 

The trauma for all is now so deep and unreal

Leaving all with a lifetime of hurts to try and heal

 

A family that started out with so much promise and hope

Is now dissolved without even any strategies to cope 

 

 

 

Without the proper resources, a family who adopts a child with early childhood trauma is doomed to not be able to provide what the child needs.  This sets the child and family up for failure.