DC celebrates National Adoption Day
On Saturday the D C Child and Family Services Agency hosted a party celebrating the th National Adoption Day Dionne s Good Food on Oak Drive SE was packed with families enjoying food face painting balloon animals games and dance performances The event honored the children and youth who were adopted in Washington D C over the last fiscal year We had this year they located their forever families declared Tanya Torres Trice acting director of Child and Family Services Currently they have forever families One of those adoptions that happened this year was in May that s when Darryl Wise became Christopher s father The first time I laid eyes on Christopher is when he was placed with me explained Wise He looked at me crying I looked at him crying Wise smiled and disclosed he and the now -month-old both agreed to take on this together Wise who himself was in foster care declared he was taken in by a wonderful foster family who taught him to pay it forward The oldest person to be adopted in D C this year was -year-old Olivia Thomas She met her mom thanks to school friends who are now her sisters It was one of the best moments of my life stated Olivia I in the end determined the stability and everything else I ve been looking for my whole life and I decisively got it with her Brnadine Thomas-Brown who has five other living children noted as soon as Olivia walked through her door three years ago she was her daughter I described her you never have to worry about being abused about being hurt being belittled or anything I m only gonna give you my love reported Thomas-Brown With pride Olivia s mom bragged about her grades and revealed she s already been accepted in several colleges There are children in foster care in the District of Columbia and sparse understand what goes into the effort to take care of them more than Ann Reilly who is Deputy of In and Out Care at Child and Family Services Days like in contemporary times we hold on to for all the hard days in between commented Reilly I adopted my daughter Natasha in at Adoption Day She was years old she turned years old last Friday If you would like to bring love into your house and family through adoption visit cfsa dc gov or call - -LOVE Source
