To raise awareness, Camp is participating in Voice for Adoption’s Adoptive Family Portrait Project.  The theme of the Portrait Project this year is Family Matters: Featuring Foster Care Adoption and Kinship Connections.  The project highlights a variety of families that provide loving and stable homes for children in need.  This year, Camp is sharing Clara and Scott Harrand’s story by displaying their portrait in his Washington, D.C. office.  The Harrands, of Midland, adopted their daughter, Audrey, through a private agency and their sons, Emmanuel and Todd, through the foster care system and continue to keep their children in touch with birth siblings and parents.  Voice for Adoption is a national non-profit organization, which advocates for waiting children and adoptive families.

In support of National Adoption Day, Camp said, “This year on National Adoption Day, we focus on the hundreds of thousands of children in need of loving families.  I am dedicated to raising awareness of children in need of a safe, permanent and loving home and recognizing  families who have already opened their hearts and homes to children in need.”  

More than 400,000 children reside in foster care in the United States, and over 104,000 of these children are awaiting adoption.  Through no fault of their own, these children enter foster care as a result of abuse, neglect or abandonment.  Each and every child has the right to experience the unconditional love of a family.  

This Saturday, November 17, 2012, marks the 13^th anniversary of National Adoption Day.  Camp encourages everyone to celebrate and honor families, like the Harrands, who adopt and continue to raise awareness of the more than 100,000 children in foster care waiting for permanent, loving homes.