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Older Children Face Challenges to Adoption

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November is National Adoption Awareness.  Currently there are more than 500 children awaiting adoption in Cuyahoga County alone.  Children older than just six and those facing other barriers face longer odds of finding forever families to love them. 

Betsie Norris, Executive Director and Founder, Adoption Network Cleveland 
Zoe Breen Wood, Ph.D., Professor of Adoption Practice and Policy, Case Mandel School of Applied Social Science 
Dionne Griffin, Mother  
Porsha Griffin, Daughter
Kristi Scott, Mother 
Jasmon Scott, Daughter

Resources:

Adoption Network Cleveland