Causes: Adoption, Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Foster Care

Mission: Passionately committed to the belief that every child deserves to thrive in a nurturing, permanent family, NCFA’s mission is to meet the diverse needs of children, birth parents, adopted individuals, adoptive families, and all those touched by adoption through global advocacy, education, research, legislative action, and collaboration. Founded in 1980, National Council For Adoption has become the authoritative voice for adoption. NCFA’s areas of focus include domestic infant adoption, adoption and permanency outcomes for youth in foster care, and intercountry adoption. Our vision is a world in which all children everywhere have nurturing, permanent families.

Programs: For more than 35 years, National Council For Adoption has served all those in the adoption community as an authoritative voice for adoption. Our three areas of focus include adoption through foster care, domestic infant adoption, and intercountry adoption. Our Families For All program promotes positive public awareness of children in foster care waiting to be adopted and recruits adults to mentor, foster, or adopt children. The iChooseAdoption campaign provides up-to-date and relevant information about adoption to women facing an unintended pregnancy. Our Global Adoption Project increases awareness of the millions of children around the world living outside of care. This campaign encourages permanency solutions for these children, including reunification with their families, kinship adoption, global domestic adoption, or intercountry adoption. For more information on our education, awareness, and advocacy programs (including conferences, trainings, monthly publications, and more!) visit AdoptionCouncil. org.