{"id":276622,"date":"2022-09-23T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276622"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:44:42","slug":"psas-families-encourage-adoption-older-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/psas-families-encourage-adoption-older-children\/","title":{"rendered":"PSAs inspired by real families encourage the adoption of older children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A series of new PSAs has been released, encouraging potential adoptive parents to consider adopting older children. Created through a partnership between Durable Goods, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), AdoptUSKids, and the Ad Council, the PSAs feature stories from real families who found adoption of older children from foster care to be rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal for these new PSAs is to continue to share poignant and emotional stories as genuine as the teens and parents who inspired them,” Michelle Hillman, Chief Campaign Development Officer of the Ad Council, said in a press release<\/a>. “Through these films, we can help prospective parents see the rewards that come with adopting teens from foster care: a lifetime of memories and experiences that both parents and children benefit from.”<\/p>\n

In “Lucky Ones,” a mother reflects on her experience adopting a teenage girl as someone tells her how lucky the girl is to have been adopted. The mother ends the ad by insisting that she<\/em> was the lucky one, not her daughter. In “Portrait,” an adoptive family repeatedly reaches out to their adopted son, seemingly to be rebuffed each time. But at the end of the ad, he is shown to have drawn portraits of each member of the family, showing their attempts were meaningful to him all along.<\/p>\n