--- title: Gladney Blog | Advocacy description: Advocacy | Gladney Center for Adoption's Blog for adoption information, adoption stories, and information about the adoption process. --- [![Gladney Center for Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Adoptionsbygladney_November2017/Images/gladney-logo.svg "Gladney Center for Adoption")](http://adoptionsbygladney.com) - [I'm Pregnant](https://gladneyadoption.com) - [I Want To Adopt](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/i-want-to-adopt) - [Post Adoption Support](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/post-adoption-support) - [About](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/about) - [Resources](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/resources) - [Contact](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/contact) - [I'm Pregnant](https://gladneyadoption.com) - [I Want To Adopt](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/i-want-to-adopt) - [Post Adoption Support](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/post-adoption-support) - [About](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/about) - [Resources](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/resources) - [Contact](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/contact) # Gladney Blog ## [One Day Closer to His Forever Family: Meet Tyrone](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/meet-tyrone) Posted by [Courtney](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/courtney) on 10/17/24 3:26 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Tyronne%20Wednesdays%20Child.png)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/meet-tyrone) [Tyrone](https://heartgallerynorthtexas.org/?page=4) is an incredible 11-year-old with a heart full of hope and dreams of becoming an NFL star. His unwavering faith in finding a loving family is inspiring. Every night, Tyrone prays, “Father God, all I want is for you to bless me with a perfect family.” This young man, who’s been in foster care for four years, is ready to find his forever home—a family that believes in him, supports his ambitions, and shares in his faith. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/meet-tyrone) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/meet-tyrone#comments-listing) Topics: [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy) ## [Build a Brand of Advocates for Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/build-a-brand-of-advocates-for-adoption) Posted by [Tiffany Anderson, MBA](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/tiffany-anderson-mba) on 9/2/20 9:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Development/ian-schneider-TamMbr4okv4-unsplash.jpeg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/build-a-brand-of-advocates-for-adoption) Leverage your social networks, corporate connections, and other affiliations to build a brand of advocates for adoption. The most effective way to enhance Gladney’s presence in the community begins with our existing advocates: YOU. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/build-a-brand-of-advocates-for-adoption) 1 Comment [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/build-a-brand-of-advocates-for-adoption#comments-listing) Topics: [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Development](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/development) ## [Opening Adoption Records](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/opening-adoption-records) Posted by [Heidi Bruegel Cox](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/heidi-bruegel-cox) on 5/26/20 8:30 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Heidi%20Cox-40.jpeg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/opening-adoption-records) It is past time to give adopted adults access to their original birth certificates, and the Gladney Center for Adoption is working to make that happen. As with everything else, adoption is ever evolving. Even with this evolution, everything surrounding the adoption is intended to protect everyone involved, including the best interests of the child as well as the rights and needs of the birth parents.  When the child grows up and wants to search for his or her birth parents, we must continue to be respectful of the birth parents, allowing them to have some control over having their story exposed.  In the new age of technology and genetic testing, limiting access to birth records does not protect birth mothers.  Giving easy access to birth certificates will not only allow adopted adults to search out and possibly connect with their birth parents, it will give birth parents the opportunity to choose their next steps in a world where privacy is not guaranteed. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/opening-adoption-records) 6 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/opening-adoption-records#comments-listing) Topics: [Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/adoption), [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Legislative](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/legislative), [Gladney Birth Parent](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/gladney-birth-parent) ## [Adoptive Parents Needed - Study on Adoption-Related Workplace Policies](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adoptive-parents-needed-for-study-on-adoption-related-workplace-policies) Posted by [Mark Melson](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/mark-melson) on 10/22/19 6:15 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/stanley-dai-73OZYNjVoNI-unsplash-1.png)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adoptive-parents-needed-for-study-on-adoption-related-workplace-policies) [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adoptive-parents-needed-for-study-on-adoption-related-workplace-policies) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adoptive-parents-needed-for-study-on-adoption-related-workplace-policies#comments-listing) Topics: [Insider](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/insider), [Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/adoption), [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Mark Melson](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/mark-melson) ## [Everything You Need To Know About the China Ambassadors of Love Program](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-china-ambassadors-of-love-program) Posted by [Wendy Stanley, LMSW, JD](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/wendy-stanley-lmsw-jd) on 10/7/19 12:30 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/icon-china.svg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-china-ambassadors-of-love-program)   [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-china-ambassadors-of-love-program) 1 Comment [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-china-ambassadors-of-love-program#comments-listing) Topics: [Superkids](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/superkids), [China Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/china-adoption), [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Waiting Children](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/waiting-children), [International Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/international-adoption), ["Ambassadors of Love"](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/ambassadors-of-love) ## [AdoptED Influencing National Magazine](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adopted-influencing-national-magazine) Posted by [Kerry Tobar](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/kerry-tobar) on 7/22/19 8:03 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Blog/blog3.jpg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adopted-influencing-national-magazine) As an AdoptED Education Specialist, I have the privilege of meeting some amazing educators and students on a daily basis. Our [AdoptED](https://resource.adoptionsbygladney.com/adoption-education-adopted-to-go) team provides schools and students with free education and resources about adoption using a hands-on, interactive curriculum. It is so wonderful to when *they* become the adoption advocates. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adopted-influencing-national-magazine) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/adopted-influencing-national-magazine#comments-listing) Topics: [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [AdoptED](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/adopted) ## [Take Action: Every Child Deserves A Loving Family](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-child-deserves-a-loving-family) Posted by [Heidi Bruegel Cox](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/heidi-bruegel-cox) on 4/19/19 10:01 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Blog/Professor%20Elizabeth%20Bartholet.jpg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-child-deserves-a-loving-family) We have continued to advocate for the belief that every child deserves a loving and caring family.  Every child. Everywhere. No one can make this happen alone. It will take the larger community of committed child advocates and parents, continuing to give a voice to the often forgotten children, in order get this message to the men and women in government and in the legislature. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-child-deserves-a-loving-family) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-child-deserves-a-loving-family#comments-listing) Topics: [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Legislative](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/legislative) ## [New Year, New Task Force, Same Mission](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/new-year-new-task-force-same-mission) Posted by [Heidi Bruegel Cox](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/heidi-bruegel-cox) on 1/13/19 11:32 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Heidi%20Cox-40.jpg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/new-year-new-task-force-same-mission) This is a very exciting time for the Gladney Center for Adoption. We are embarking on a long-term plan to address why children continue to wait in foster care after they are legally available for adoption. Gladney has always believed every child deserves a loving and caring family, and in many ways, Gladney is returning to its roots. We began when our founder Reverend I.Z.T. Morris took on the responsibility of finding loving families for children from the orphan trains who arrived in Texas after they hadn’t found homes along the way. Although children no longer take long journeys across the country on orphan trains, the children waiting in foster care have often survived a much longer, more treacherous journey. Most children living in foster care are there because they experienced abuse, neglect, or other trauma. In addition, they have experienced the loss of a family due to removal from their homes and separation from their biological families. Once in foster care, most of these children will experience multiple placements, moving from one foster family to the next or to group homes. We know children thrive in families, and children who have experienced trauma can only find safety, security, and nurturing in a loving and caring, forever family. Gladney has been [placing children from foster care](https://adoptionsbygladney.com/i-want-to-adopt/foster-adoption) for many years. In October 2018, the Gladney Center Board of Directors voted to further advance Gladney’s focus and mission by creating a task force to grow and improve adoptions from foster care. The purpose of the task force is “to create a sustainable and replicable model that places every adoptable child waiting in Texas foster care.” The members of the task force include Gladney board members, Gladney parents who adopted children from foster care, and Gladney staff, with input from outside experts in relevant fields. Gladney board member Roger Metz serves as the chair of the task force. This group begins its exciting and strategic work this month. In preparation for the creation of the task force and its work, Gladney staff spent the summer and fall researching questions and issues affecting foster care and pulling data, information, and anecdotal evidence regarding children in foster care who are waiting for adoption. Gladney staff will continue to work closely with Our Community Our Kids in Fort Worth, in order to identify children who need adoptive homes much earlier in their legal process than in the past. Our staff are also communicating with Child Protective Services and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers from around the state who are advocating for children throughout the legal process. In addition, Gladney has begun to open lines of communication with agencies across the United States who are screening, educating, training, and offering supportive services to prospective families who want to adopt children from foster care. The task force will begin to assess what would be the highest and best use of Gladney’s strengths and what Gladney’s primary role should be in meeting the needs of these waiting children. They will approach the issues from three directions: impacting external systems to serve children and families; constructing the best internal systems to create scalability; and ensuring long-term sustainability. Once the initial work is started, the task force will work to create strategies for success, set objectives with clear measurable goals, and provide input and evaluate Gladney’s progress against the strategies’ short, intermediate, and long-term goals and desired outcomes. Gladney’s mission is Creating Bright Futures Through Adoption. With the work of Gladney’s board, committed staff, engaged volunteers, and collaborative partners, we hope to impact the futures of thousands of children who are waiting in foster care for a forever family, because every one of these children deserves a loving and caring family. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/new-year-new-task-force-same-mission) 2 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/new-year-new-task-force-same-mission#comments-listing) Topics: [Insider](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/insider), [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Legislative](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/legislative), [Foster Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/foster-adoption) ## [Take Action: Every Voice Counts in Child Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-voice-counts-in-child-advocacy) Posted by [Heidi Bruegel Cox](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/heidi-bruegel-cox) on 7/20/18 9:33 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Blog/freestocks-org-662168-unsplash%20%281%29.jpg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-voice-counts-in-child-advocacy) Every child deserves a loving, caring family, including children in other countries who have been orphaned. The adoption community-waiting families, adoptive families, adopted adults, licensed agencies, faith communities, child advocates, and support organizations-believes that connecting children with families provides the best opportunity for many of these children to live healthy, cared-for, productive lives. There are millions of children waiting, many dying, and most aging out of orphanages, with little hope for the future. And there are many thousands of families in the U.S. waiting to offer themselves to a child needing a family. [Read More](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-voice-counts-in-child-advocacy) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/take-action-every-voice-counts-in-child-advocacy#comments-listing) Topics: [Advocacy](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/advocacy), [Legislative](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/tag/legislative) ## [Separation of Children from Parents at our Nation’s Borders](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/separation-of-children-from-parents-at-our-nations-borders) Posted by [Gladney Center for Adoption](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/author/gladney-center-for-adoption) on 6/29/18 12:24 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/hubfs/Blog/freestocks-org-662168-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.adoptionsbygladney.com/separation-of-children-from-parents-at-our-nations-borders) The Gladney Center for Adoption is very saddened and troubled by the separation of children from parents at our nation’s borders.  Research demonstrates children who are suddenly and without cause separated from their parents experience significant trauma with long-lasting negative impact on growth, emotional and mental health. To learn more about this issue please [click here](https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Statement-on-Executive-Order-on-Family-Separation.aspx) to read the American Association  of Pediatrics’ statement. Gladney is a child centered organization and we advocate for children around the world. 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