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utah programs

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Many children are in the custody of the Utah 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.

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Meet Steven!
Meet Steven

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Finding Families

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

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Wednesday's Child

Meet De'Andre!

Meet De'Andre!


Wednesday's Child airs each Wednesday on KUTV Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. and during the 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. newscasts.

Click here for more about Wednesday's Child.

Click Here to view Wednesday's Child Videos.

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Utah Adoption Connection

The Division of Child and Family Services has partnered with The Adoption Exchange to develop and maintain a website for children available for adoption, offer post-adoption resources and support and publish a quarterly magazine.

Click here for more information.



Utah Heart Gallery

 Utah Heart Gallery

A picture is worth a thousand words!


The Utah Heart Gallery, in partnership with UT DCFS, is an unique exhibit combining the talents of many professional Utah photographers to reflect the personalities of foster children waiting to be adopted. What is even more unique about the Heart Gallery Utah exhibit is that the pictures showing the children and teens at their best were taken and donated by the photographers. Portraits of 20 children are on display.

Click here to learn more on the Utah Heart Gallery and its current location.

Utah Heart Gallery Helps Find Homes for Foster Children
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Wendy's Wonderful Kids

Wendy's Wonderful Kids

Meet the children!
The Utah 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 process used to find families for children in foster care who wait the longest.

Contact Utah 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.



For more information or to help answer questions you can always contact the
Utah Office directly at 801-265-0444 or 1-866-872-7212 (in state only).