Tennessee Kids Belong Adoption Program

COVID-19 put a halt to a lot of things, but one thing it didn't stop was families adopting through the foster care system.

Up to 60 65 thursday danielle ... thank you so much for, 19 hot a lot of things but one thing it didn't stop with families adopting through the foster car system ... salt brine armstrong me to the family who grow larger during the pandemic ... the same as every cloud has a silver lining and that's what 20/20 has been for emily griffe as she and her husband adopted abram back in august we had knew we were always going to grow ou family so we started with foster care and wanted to help kids in our community and eventually ended up adopting a child this holiday season include abram another foster kid in their two biological kids they were really excited to add brothers to their family my older kids are 14 and had so they're able to help out with the 22-year-old we have in our home and it's just a wild circuit adopted abram's her tendency to belong to an organization that focuses on fostering and adopting to's we held tennessee into my macro level for foster care support s we equip leaders on how to help foster kids and businesses were involved with government 2020 i required to as he could belong in the department of children services to adjust how adoption happen but they been able to pivot successfully dcs is really kept things moving continue to be available to help vulnerable kids and to help foster familie taken can and to be able to support foster families the bes that they can she says there's still plenty of kids in need of family and she's proud she coul adopt abram into their family because there's always foster kids and a pandemic and nine th pandemic so we are continuing to advocate for the vulnerable kid in our society and soon emily and