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National Adoption Awareness Month is an opportunity to raise the issue about the urgent needs of children and youth in the foster care systems. According to the Michigan Department of Health and [...]

Every adoption is a journey. For many, the process involves unexpected challenges that require support, commitment and lots of love on everyone’s part. The Children’s Center is a partner with [...]

Life is full of surprises. For Jodi and Dusan, their surprises came in the form of three bundles of love, one of whom is their adoptive son Julius. Julius was just one of nearly 3,000 children in [...]

Every child deserves to glow from the inside out. For some, that glow only begins when they discover the warmth of a loving family. Every year, The Children’s Center works with adoptive families [...]

Many of the children we serve have seen life through the lens of hopelessness. Abuse. Trauma. Some of them have been removed from their homes because of these tragedies. The Children’s Center [...]

In 2021, The Children’s Center has reunified 21 foster children with their biological families to date. It can be a difficult journey. Many children come into foster care having experienced [...]

My name is Nancy Willis, and I am a retired foster and adoptive parent. As a young child, my mother and I would read the newspaper, and we’d always see the same ad for foster parent [...]

Imagine changing the trajectory of a child’s life. Helping children who are in danger find refuge and care in safe, loving adoptive homes. In Michigan 3,000 children in any given year are waiting [...]