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INFERTILITY   ADOPTION   POST-ADOPTION   FAMILY TREE   Adoption Resource Central    Heart of Adoption Articles to inspire   International adoption guide   You can order Family Helper publications		New Brunswick adoption awareness campaign BY ROBIN HILBORN, Family Helper editor
		(March 20, 2002) On March 20, 2002 the province of New Brunswick announced an adoption awareness campaign, "Kids Can't Wait to Have a Family". The campaign, run by the New Brunswick Adoption Foundation, will feature a web site, brochures, a toll-free number, and ads on radio and TV. The campaign aims to increase public awareness of adoption and to recruit adoptive parents for older children, children with special needs and sibling groups in the permanent care of the Minister of Family and Community Services. The province has hired 25 more social workers to meet anticipated demand. Adoptive parents will get training through the PRIDE program (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education), started by the Child Welfare League of America in the late 1990s. As of February 2004, this adoption project had helped to place 304 children for adoption. For more: "Kids Can't Wait to Have a Family", 1-866-ADOPT-01 (1-877-JADOPTE for information in French). The web site focuses on older children, special needs children and sibling groups in permanent care of the ministry: www.gnb.ca/0017/adoption/index-e.asp ________________________________________ You may reproduce this item with the credit: "Source: Family Helper (www.familyhelper.net)"