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Recent News at Alliance
for Children...
Korean Adoptions
for FL and SC Families!
May,
2008 - The
Alliance for Children can
now place children from Korea with Florida
families (only) and special needs children from
Korea with South
Carolina families (only). Please visit our
FL and SC pages for the office contact information,
and look for more info on our new Korean adoption
program soon.
We are now Hague
Accredited!
Alliance For Children is please to announce
that we have received our Hague Accreditation!
 New
Southwest Regional Coordinator
Feb. 2008 - The Alliance for
Children now has representation in the Southwest
with the addition of Rich Johnson to our staff.
Rich, a proud father of four Russian-born sons
and one Russian-born daughter, resides in the
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and works with prospective
adoptive parents throughout Texas, Arizona,
Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Please see our Texas branch
office page or contact Rich at (214) 403-1832
or rjohnson@allforchildren.org
for more information about adopting in the Southwest.
 Angels
in Adoption
South Carolina Family
Honored as an Angel in Adoption in Washington
DC Ceremony, October, 2007
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint has nominated
Patrick and Marchie Thornton of Mount Pleasant
for their outstanding advocacy of adoption.
The Thorntons adopted their daughter Anna Vera
from Russia with the help of Alliance for Children,
and since her arrival have become enthusiastic
advocates for adoption. The Congressional Coalition
on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which orchestrates
the Angels in Adoption program, will honor the
Thorntons, along with more than 180 other Angels,
at an awards ceremony and gala event in Washington,
DC, October 4, 2007. To read the full press
release, please visit the South
Carolina branch office page of the Alliance
for Children web site.
Our new
Web Site
June, 2007 - We
hope you'll enjoy our brand new web site! Thank
you for your patience as we fix any quirks that
may exist. If you have an adoption story you
can share with us in the Adoption
Stories section, or an idea for something
you'd like to see added to the site, please
let us know at info@allforchildren.org, attn:
Webmaster. Thanks!
Procter &
Gamble Contributes $50,000 to Alliance for Children
Foundation Project to Support Orphans in China
P & G’s Live, Learn and Thrive™
Program Will Help Change the Life of Children
in Need By Supporting Family Style Foster Villages
Wellesley, MA – May 18, 2007
–The Alliance for Children Foundation
today announced a $50,000 donation from Proctor
& Gamble’s Live, Learn and Thrive
Global Cause to fund a foster care village in
China for orphans who are currently living in
institutional settings. The Foundation currently
has two such villages in operation there that
have become the “gold standard”
for innovative social intervention addressing
quality of life as well as basic care and wellness
for orphaned children in need.
“It is our privilege to work with P &
G, one of the world’s most socially conscious
global companies, because both of our organization's
missions focus on providing children with a
healthy start and providing otherwise unattainable
opportunities and the required skills to become
responsible adults,” said Filis Casey,
Executive Director of the Alliance For Children
Foundation.
The Alliance’s innovative and successful
family style living model was developed six
(6) years ago to assist orphaned children from
3-14 years of age, many with special needs,
by providing a small group living experience
outside of an institutional setting. The objective
is to give children without families a secure
and loving home with surrogate parents and siblings,
schooling, consistent attention, and individual
care. “It is no surprise that research
shows that children thrive better in families
rather than institutions,” said Casey
“The extraordinary gift from P & G
insures that more children will have an opportunity
for a successful future.”
Alliance’s Family Style Living Villages
take the foster care model several steps further,
nurturing children with a strong sense of belonging
within a family unit and supportive community,
and instilling the confidence and skills that
will enable these children to plan for bright
futures.
“We believe the work of the Alliance
is critical to the healthy all-around development
of children in need, which is a natural fit
with our Live, Learn and Thrive cause. The Family
Style Living Villages have shown positive results,
and we’re proud to be a part of taking
this concept to more children who need it most,”
said Brian Sasson, Manager of the Live, Learn
and Thrive cause at P&G.
Each foster village is a partnership with the
Chinese government, which provides the residential
building, and the Alliance Foundation, which
subsidizes living expenses for the resident
families. The program recruits qualified and
appropriate surrogate parents, with or without
their own children, to live in a modern and
sanitary three-bedroom apartment. One parent
works in the nearby area, and the other is a
homemaker, taking care of the children. The
idea is to create normal family surroundings.
Each pair of surrogate parents hosts six orphans
of mixed ages to create sibling relationships.
Special needs children are housed with non-special
needs children. The children become part of
the community, attend local public schools along
with the other children in the neighborhood,
and receive medical and dental care within the
local community.
Presently, Alliance has established two such
villages which it currently supports in the
cities of Ma’anshan and Hefei, both in
Anhui Province. With the Proctor & Gamble
funding Alliance will establish a third village
this year in the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi Province.
Plans for a fourth village are being considered.
About the Alliance for Children Foundation
The Alliance for Children Foundation (The Foundation)
is a Massachusetts based international relief
organization dedicated to improving the physical
and emotional well being of children living
in institutions in Asia, Eastern Europe and
Latin America. The Foundation's projects in
medical care, basic needs, and education seek
to heal, strengthen and empower the world's
most vulnerable children, especially those who
are less likely to be adopted due to age or
special needs. Its programs provide these children
with an otherwise unattainable opportunity for
a better future.
The Foundation was established in 2000 to implement
humanitarian aid programs to help children without
families to be safe and to thrive, to realize
their potential, and to build successful lives
as adults. Foundation programs fall within three
broad categories:
- Basic Care – providing
food, shelter and clothing to children enduring
desperate living conditions. These projects
include access to clean water, basic nutrition,
sanitation, air conditioning and heat, beds
and bedding, and laundry equipment.
- Medical, Rehabilitative, and Wellness
Care – facilitating surgical
interventions and medical care for children
living with illness, deformity, or mental
impairment while also seeking to increase
preventive care. Projects include surgeries
for children with facial deformities or physical
defects as well as providing other medical/surgical
procedures, medicines, vaccines, rehabilitative
equipment, therapy, and preventative medical
and dental care.
- Quality of Life Care –
improving the quality of life for children
who are unlikely to find families because
of age or special medical issues. Projects
include providing a safe loving environment,
teaching basic life skills, social integration,
teaching vocational skills, building and stocking
institutional libraries, establishing computer
labs, and duplicating family-style living
projects for homeless or institutionalized
children.
For more information on the Alliance for Children
Foundation, please visit www.afcfoundation.org
About Procter & Gamble
Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch
the lives of people around the world. The company
has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted,
quality, leadership brands, including Pampers®,
Tide®, Ariel®, Always®, Whisper®,
Pantene®, Mach3®, Bounty®, Dawn®,
Pringles®, Folgers®, Charmin®, Downy®,
Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®,
Actonel®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head
& Shoulders®, Wella, Gillette®,
and Braun. The P&G community consists of
almost 140,000 employees working in over 80
countries worldwide. In these countries and
beyond, P&G is committed to improving lives
for children in need, ages 0-13, through its
global corporate cause, Live, Learn and Thrive
– helping children get off to a healthy
start, receive access to an education, and build
skills for life. Please visit http://www.pg.com
for the latest news and in-depth information
about P&G, its brands, and Live, Learn and
Thrive.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Filis M. Casey
Alliance for Children Foundation
filis@allforchildren.org
Support
the Alliance For Children Foundation
Village Automotive
As a proud supporter of the Alliance for Children,
Ray Ciccolo will donate $250 to the Alliance
for every car you purchase, or for any person
you refer to one of his dealerships. Send an
e-mail to ray@villageautomotive.com,
and he'll direct you to one of his stores, where
they'll walk you through the process of selecting
the best car for you. For more info on Village
Automotive and to see all of his locations,
click over to www.villageautomotive.com.
Alliance in the
News!
May 9, 2007 - Alliance For
Children Executive Director Filis Casey was
interviewed recently for a Mother's Day article
on FoxNews.com, titled "If
Your Daughter Doesn't Look Like You, Are You
Still Her Mother?" Click the link to
read this article about adoptive families.
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