The Adoption Exchange: New Mexico Adoption Programs

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Information

Many children are in the custody of the New Mexico foster care system and are eligible and waiting for a permanent home

The children who wait are the survivors of abuse and neglect. They are school-aged children, brothers and sisters, children of color and those with disabilities. These children live in a series of foster and group homes. There they wait. They hope for the stability and love of an adoptive family.

Featured Child
of the Month

Meet Rosario!
Click on photo to view profile.

Finding Families

The Adoption Exchange provides a number of effective and innovative programs to connect waiting children with adoptive families.

View our Children's Gallery

Weekly Waiting Child

Each week you will receive an email featuring children recently listed or relisted in our Children's Gallery.

Your information will not be distributed to other organizations or businesses.

Wednesday's Child / Buscan en un Hogar

Each week local news stations, Channel 41 and KOBTV News4 feature a child or sibling group in need of an adoptive family. Channel 41, a Spanish-language station, airs "Buscan en un Hogar" every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Steve Stucker with KOBTV News4 profiles a child or sibling group on Tuesday and Thursday at 6:00 a.m.

Adoption Parties

The Adoption Exchange, in partnership with New Mexico CYFD, provides 'Networking' parties for families interested in adopting, children waiting in foster care and their caseworkers, and successful adoptive families are sponsored by all offices several times a year. The parties offer a unique opportunity for families, children and caseworkers to connect while in a safe, relaxed, fun atmosphere.

Contact Adoption Parties for more information and questions.

New Mexico Heart Gallery

On March 29, 2001, at the suggestion of Santa Fe photographer and adoptive mother Cathy Maier Callanan, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) brought the expression " a picture is worth a thousand words" to life at the nation's first Heart Gallery exhibit. Today, there are forty-two states across the nation that have an active Heart Gallery.

Click here to learn more on the New Mexico Heart Gallery, its current location and profiled children.

Wendy's Wonderful Kids

Meet A the children!

The New Mexico Office is a Wendy's Wonderful Kids site. Wendy's Wonderful Kids is a national initiative of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that provides child-specific recruitment for waiting children. Child-specific recruitment is an in-depth processes used to find families for children in foster care who wait the longest.

Contact New Mexico Wendy's Wonderful Kids for more information and questions.

Global Connections

A cooperative effort between The Adoption Exchange and Voice for International Development and Adoption expedites the adoption process for military families and US citizens living abroad by providing them with easy access to information, resources and placement services provided by qualified professionals.

Contact Global Connections for more information and questions.

Publications

The Chosen - April 2010 Issue
The Chosen - January 2010 Issue
The Chosen - October 2009 Issue
The Chosen - April 2009 Issue
The Chosen - January 2009 Issue
The Chosen - October 2008 Issue

For more information or to help answer questions you can always
contact the New Mexico Office directly at 505 247-1769.