There are nearly 50 children ready for adoption here in Louisiana, so we hope that we can help speed up their wait time by sharing a little bit about each of them.
One Florida woman went through her younger years without being adopted. It was when she turned 19-years-old that her long-time case worker and motherly figure decided it was time they officially became family, as they had been all along.
Carter knows exactly what it’s like to be in their shoes as he went into foster care when he was 12-years-old and he was separated from his siblings for years.
About 20 children in the foster care system attended a pizza party yesterday sponsored by Buck and Johnny's Pizzeria in Breaux Bridge. The kids were asked to use art and poetry to express what being adopted would mean to them. Lavontray, an 8th grader who's been in the system for 5 years now, put his feelings into song and I'm now a teary mess.
State Senator Fred Mills and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle stayed ‘up in the air’ on Friday to raise money for Louisiana's Family Forum's Adoption campaign and surpassed their goal of $10,000.
The two men were perched in what was, basically, a "cherry-picker" next to a billboard on Kaliste Saloom Road in Lafayette from 5am until almost 8pm, when severe weather forced them to