Adoption Month coverage

November is National Adoption Month: a nationwide effort to encourage families to embrace youth in the county foster care system. Each November DSS holds Adoption Day, a multi-family adoption ceremony at juvenile court in Santa Maria. Local families finalized adoption of 16 children at this year's event.

Coverage of Adoption Day:
Santa Maria Times / Lompoc Record
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The SM Times also offered "roses" (praise) in its weekly "Roses & Raspberries" editorial blurb.

(An average of 400 children in are in foster care at any given time in Santa Barbara County and in some cases foster parents ultimately adopt the kids. For more information on becoming a foster family, click here.)