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Helping Your Kids Build Healthy Tech Habits
Help your kids build healthy tech habits with 4 TBRI®-informed tips for adoptive and foster families on screen time, monitoring, and staying connected.
How to Apply for a Show Hope Adoption Aid Grant: 8 Tips + 1 Quick One
The Vision for Medical Care Grants
In 2003, we founded Show Hope with the mission to care for orphans by engaging the Church and reducing barriers to adoption. Through our own personal adoption journey, our hearts had been quickened to the needs of children who had been orphaned. We had quickly identified a financial barrier that stood between waiting children and…
How to Choose an Adoption Agency
One of the first choices you will make in adoption is choosing an agency. While some families choose to pursue adoption through an attorney or consultant, most prospective adoptive parents work directly through a licensed, child-placing agency. Here’s what to look for as you choose an adoption agency: Look for Hague Accreditation It is important…
Before You Apply for a Show Hope Medical Care Grant
At Show Hope, we recognize that bringing your child home is not the end of your adoption journey. In fact, it is really just the beginning. In a desire to continue journeying well with families, Show Hope’s Medical Care grants help reduce both financial and medical barriers to adoption. Ranging from $7,000-$10,000, these grants can…
I Want to Give Them All the Money for All the Things by Mary Beth Chapman
I say it almost every time we sit to review applications for Show Hope’s Medical Care grants: “I want to give them all the money for all the things!” And I mean it. If you could sit in one of those meetings—if you could read the stories and see what these families are carrying—I believe…
Before You Apply for a Show Hope Adoption Aid Grant
Show Hope adoption grants address one of the primary barriers standing between waiting children and families—the rising cost of adoption. Today, Adoption Aid grants range from $8,000 to $12,000, covering approximately 25% to 35% of total costs. Before even opening the Show Hope Adoption Aid application, spend a few minutes gathering everything you’ll need. Here…
