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Thank you NBC 6 and the Children's Services Council of Broward County!

Click for Sun Sentinel feature story.

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Get Your Heirloom Forever Family® Bracelet

Forever Family® relies on the generosity of our sponsors and viewers. Please consider adding this beautiful hand-crafted and designed limited edition Kaufmann de Suisse heirloom Forever Family® bracelet to your jewelry collection. 100% of the $375 purchase price goes to helping children find loving forever families. Only 100 of these bracelets will be sold. If you are looking for a special gift for yourself or someone you love look no further. What better gift to give than to help an orphaned child find a mom and dad.

To arrange purchase and delivery please call 1-888-365-FAMILY, email gia@foreverfamily.org
or visit Kauffmann de Suissee on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach.

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Forever Family® partnership highlighted in: FL Gov. Rick Scott's Adoption Month Proclamation

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Forever Family® Celebrating its 10th Anniversary!

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Forever Family® Featured in Nation's Capitol

 

Gia was in Washington, DC
recently where Forever Family® was being featured at the OJJDP Children's
Justice and Safety Conference. The conference featured special tracks on children’s exposure to violence, anti-gang strategies, child protection and advocacy, truancy and dropping out, among other topics.

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Forever Family®'s Gia Tutalo-Mote Named Lifestyle Magazines Icon

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Forever Family® Welcomes our Newest Sponsors Goodwill Industries and Publix Super Markets

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Forever Family® Founder, Gia Appears on MSNBC

Forever Family® receives Congressional Award

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(Click through to watch Forever Family®'s most recent videos or click FLORIDA CHILDREN and NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN to view all children looking for a Forever Family®. To search all past Forever Family® videos, please visit our YouTube Channel.)

Forever Family® is a truly unique, non-profit organization that utilizes the power of the media, through television segments and on-air promotions, to create awareness regarding children and teens in foster care --sensitively.  We create public / private partnerships for the important task of finding children in foster care adoptive homes, recruitment of foster parents and volunteers, and help for teens ‘aging out’ of the foster care system.

Everyone dreams of the future. Sadly, most children in foster care will never achieve those dreams. In Florida, 3 out of 4 of these young people don't earn a standard high school diploma. Help us change that. HELP NOW and LEARN MORE

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Style Maven Fashion Event

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Foster Parent For Over 125 Foster Children!

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FOSTERING HOPE

 

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Forever Family Founder Gia Tutalo-Mote featured on...

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Thank you to the wonderful attorneys of the Broward County Justice Association and Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman for supporting Forever Family!

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A big thank you from Forever Family®!

The Publix Food For All Campaign with those little 1, 3 and 5 dollar donation cards we see over the holidays raised over 1.6 million dollars for local charities again this year. Tonight, a look at how so much generosity is giving a critical boost to non-profits, including our Forever Family® program.

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10 Children Adopted by Family!

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Family adopts 10 children!

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Imagine you are 13 years old,

...have been moving from home to home, with no real family to speak of except the younger sister you love and adore. That's life for the sweet teen your about to meet. Tonight we bring you Trinity's story in the hopes she and her sister, Katherine, will soon be settled in with a family who'll be theirs forever.

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Four Children Find a Forever Family®...

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Wonderful news to report

...about two brothers we featured many times in our forever family series. It took the help of a determined child advocate...a photograph...and a young, first time mother whose siblings have the same rare genetic disorder...to finally make their dream of a family come true.  

 

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The story of Royce and Noah is a Forever Family® success!

Royce and Noah have been in foster care most of  their lives. They have been photographed for the Heart  Gallery and featured in Forever Family news segments  several times over many years. They are gentle, sweet  boys, now ages 18 and 14, but their rare medical  condition, known as 5 p minus, scares most adoptive  families away. People assume that their needs are more  than  they can handle- times two.  "Too much to handle" never even occurred to Tabitha,  a single, 28-year-old woman who adopted the boys last  fall. As soon as she saw their photo, she knew that she  wanted to adopt them. 5 p minus, also known as Cri du  Chat Syndrome, has touched Tabitha's family deeply.  She is one of ten children, two of whom were born with  this disorder.  5 P Minus occurs in only 50 to 60 births a year. It requires lifelong therapy, but the children are usually friendly and happy. Most can have a normal life expectancy and lead full lives. Royce and Noah are  developmentally at 4 and 5 year-old levels. The connection between Tabitha and ChildNet was  the result of some creative family finding on the part of  Jessica Samuels, Wendy’s Wonderful Kid Recruiter at ChildNet.

“No one ever called about these boys. I knew  I had to try something different”. So she Googled and found the Five P Minus Society, a support organization  for families of children with the syndrome. Jessica  contacted the Society and they permitted her to submit  a short article for their newsletter along with their Heart  Gallery photo. The rest is the beginning of an amazing journey… As soon as Tabitha saw the photo of Royce and Noah in the newsletter, she got on the phone to Jessica. Jessica  then sent her a Forever Family video and she knew that  they were supposed to be her boys. She came to Fort  Lauderdale from out of state three times to get to know  t hem and every time found it difficult to leave. Royce and Noah are much higher-functioning than Tabitha’s  siblings, one of whom died right before Tabitha decided  to adopt. In fact, their ability to speak and interact has brought her family close to them and created a wonderful support system for this single parent. The boys lead busy lives that include special needs  scouting and Special Olympics (three sports!). Tabitha  left her job as a special education teacher to care for  the boys. Her training has helped her to anticipate their emotional and social needs. They have adapted  beautifully to their new life. Gia Tutalo-Mote, of Forever Family, sums up our  sentiments. “It thrills my heart to know that Royce and   Noah have finally found that loving forever family we’ve been searching for. This proves once again that there is a family out there for every waiting child.

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They are loving children who need a home - now on WESH 2 News.

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Angels In Adoption

Do you believe in Angels? After this show, you will! Join us, as we talk to some real life Angels of Adoption, a program of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. This is a special holiday program celebrating the incredible spirit and passion of these folks who work tirelessly for adoption. The Angels for Adoption program provides an opportunity for Members of Congress to honor individuals, families, or organization from their district that have made an extraordinary contribution on behalf of children in need of homes. These heroes hail from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico and represent the wide spectrum of individuals involved in the adoption and foster care process. Since the program's inception in 1999,over 1,800 Angels have received this honor. CCAI also honors a select number of National Angels in Adoption™. As the name implies, these are individuals whose contributions in the fields of adoption or foster care have had a national impact. 

...Forever Family® was featured throughout - most around 31 minutes 38 seconds in this audio broadcast:

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/66419/special-encore-presentation-angels-in-adoption

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News Flash: Welcome WESH 2 and the Community Partnership for Children!

Launching January 2013!

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Forever Family® Celebrates First Year of Broadcasting on FOX 8 North Carolina!

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Forever Family® partners with WESH 2 in Orlando for National Adoption Month

 

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	NBC 6 Forever Family® Celebrates 10 Years

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News Flash: Forever Family® Celebrates One Year With
Fox 8-WGHP in North Carolina!

 

Tune in to Fox 8 in the Greensboro, NC area on Tuesdays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 9am
You can also watch a live stream at myfox8.com
Watch our most recent Forever Family® North Carolina Story.

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Dakota Finds His Forever Family® After Feature on Fox 8!

		Dakota Reading		Dakota Thinking
Dakota Signing		Dakota the Notary		Dad Signing

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MSNBC Talks to Gia Tutalo-Mote About National Honor

United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Children's Bureau present Forever Family® with the Adoption Excellence Award. MSNBC highlights Forever Family.

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Forever Family®'s Success Stories

Awareness created through Forever Family has generated thousands of viewer inquiries, resulting in hundreds of adoptions, foster families and community volunteers. In addition, nearly half a million dollars in cash, goods, and services has been given back to the communities we serve.

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Forever Family® on Lifetime Television

Watch Forever Family® Founder Gia Tutalo-Mote's appearance on Lifetime Television's "The Balancing Act".

* Data provided by The National Foster Care Adoption Attitudes Survey
*Photos courtesy of the Heart Gallery of Broward County

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Children in Foster Care Need YOUR Help Misunderstandings about who children in foster care are and why they are in care add to the enormous hurdles they face. MYTH 1 – Nearly half of Americans believe that children are placed into foster care because of juvenile delinquency. THE TRUTH -Children are removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, abandonment or the death of their parents. MYTH 2 – Most Americans (68%) think that children in foster care can not be adopted. THE TRUTH – There are more than 100,000 children in America’s foster care system waiting and hoping to be adopted.      MYTH 3 – Of those that are aware of foster care adoption, nearly half (46%) believe that it is expensive.  THE TRUTH – Foster care adoption is FREE. There may even be a monthly stipend, free college, and free health insurance. MYTH 4 – Two-thirds of people considering adoption are concerned that the biological parents can take the child back.   THE TRUTH – Once the adoption is finalized the child(ren) are legally a part of your family - forever. Forever Family® is uniquely positioned to dispel these myths - But we need your help.
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