November is National Adoption Month, and this year Naturalcare Cleaning Service wants to help someone special with (6) six months of home cleaning. Candice, our operations manager, recently adopted 3 children from Arms Wide Adoption Services. Going through that process, she realized there are SO many special people that need to be recognized for their

National Adoption Awareness Month and National Adoption Day With the turn of the calendar to November, Arms Wide Adoption Services will join other organizations across the country in recognizing National Adoption Awareness Month, as well as National Adoption Day. National Adoption Awareness Month is a nationwide effort to educate the public and prospective parents on

The Arms Wide Adoption Services team got together to offer our families a comprehensive list of suggested reading materials. We hope these books will help guide you through your foster care, adoption, and parenting journeys. Adoption and Foster Care A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg, MD “Children who are cared for in an

Last week, our very own Adoption Coordinator, Jodi Singer, shared her family’s incredible adoption journey. You can read this beautiful story about being an adopter here. Most importantly, Jodi’s adoption story taught us how adoption means resilience. But we were still left with a few questions about what that means. Read more from Jodi in

What Adoption Means To Me Adoption can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people…for me, it is unconditional love that runs deeper than I will ever be able to express to my children. As a young child, I wanted to adopt from the moment that I knew what adoption really meant.

“Man Plans, God Laughs” The Road To Adoption Doesn’t Always Go As Planned Heather Doyle first thought about adoption in the seventh grade when she met her best friend who was adopted from Korea. Having come from an instable childhood, Heather’s strongest desire was to have a family. She knew she wanted to parent birth

Preparing To Be an Adoptive or Foster Parent In preparing to become a foster or adoptive parent, all potential families are required to attend Preparation Classes. Many of these classes help parents prepare for the trauma children in foster care have experienced and teaches them interventions which are successful in healing abused and/or neglected children.

I recently stumbled across this Facebook post by Real Life Foster Mom: Like many of her posts, her words stuck with me. As Arms Wide Adoption Services’ Director of Adoption and Foster Care Programs, it’s something I hear all the time. “Fostering? That’s too tough. I’m afraid I’ll get too attached.”       What I love about