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(The Center Square) - Saturday Nov. 23, marks the 25th anniversary of National Adoption Day. According to the National Adoption Day website, it is a grassroots effort to raise awareness of the ...
National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the more than 100,000 children in foster care waiting for permanent and loving families.
On National Adoption Day courts and communities in the United States come together to finalize thousands of adoption of children from foster care.More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November, in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care.
Maricopa County (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ k oʊ p ə /) is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.As of the 2020 census the population was 4,420,568, [1] or about 62% of the state's total, making it the fourth-most populous county in the United States and the most populous county in Arizona, and making Arizona one of the nation's most centralized states.
In 1950, a group of Phoenix women, aware of the urgency of funding shortages at the Maricopa County March of Dimes, created the first Mothers' March on Polio establishing the model that the national foundation would adopt and spread nationwide starting in 1951. [16]
While National Adoption Day is the biggest day for adoptions at the court, they generally average two or three adoptions a week, Moran said, and have the most adoptions of any county statewide.
Maricopa County voters approve a 20-year continuation of the 1985 sales tax to fund transportation needs. The plan includes almost $25 billion in funding for: freeways, bus transit expansion, light rail, city streets, and bike and pedestrian paths. [129] The Translational Genomics Research Institute opens in downtown Phoenix. [221]