All Children All Families Pledge of Commitment
There are over 500,000 children living in foster care across the country, and over 100,000 are waiting for permanent families through adoption. Too many of these children and youth age out of the foster care system and never know what its like to have a family of their own. It is important to identify and remove any barriers that may prevent them from growing up with the love and stability they deserve.
We believe that all potential qualified parents, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, or marital status should be equally valued as a resource for these children and youth.
As an organization, we support the two primary goals of HRCs All Children All Families initiative:
- That adoption and foster care agencies affirmatively welcome and support all stable, nurturing families, including LGBT-headed families, and are culturally competent in working with these families and;
- Members of the LGBT community are made aware of opportunities in domestic adoption and foster parenting and can easily identify agencies that welcome them.
As an adoption or foster care agency or organization, we pledge to implement policies and practices that welcome, affirm and support diverse families from our communities. We will strive to be culturally competent in serving LGBT foster and adoptive parents, as outlined in the All Children All Families Promising Practices Guide. We will implement these promising practices as they apply within our scope of services and aim to achieve all applicable benchmarks.
We will encourage our contract/partner/provider agencies to engage in inclusive practice and will provide leadership for those who wish to more formally engage in best practices with the LGBT community.
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