MAA is excited to celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month with half off our application fee in November!

It’s a time for families, communities, businesses, and governments to celebrate adoption and raise awareness for the waiting children in foster care, local adoption, and international adoption. This month, we’d like to recognize families who have grown through adoption, advocate for permanency and the welfare of every waiting child and encourage our communities to support adoption. Join MAA as we attend local adoption celebrations this month and raise awareness for adoption.  

In celebration of November being National Adoption Month we are happy to offer 50% off our application fee for the entire month! From now until November 30^th our application fee is only $250 (regularly $500)! So apply TODAY and give a child in need a better tomorrow!!

Orphan Sunday is just around the corner!

The Christian Alliance for Orphans has organized Orphan Sunday for many years. It is a special day when we stand for the orphan. We are a people called to defend the fatherless…to care for the child that has no family…to visit orphans in their distress. Each event is locally-led. Sermons and small groups, concerts and prayer gatherings, shared meals and youth activities—each rousing believers with God’s call to care for the orphan, and what we can do in response. Each November, thousands of events will echo across America and around the globe, all sharing a single goal: that God’s great love for the orphan will find echo in our lives as well.

CAFO encourages you to share Orphan Sunday in your area! No matter how big or small, add to the echo of Orphan Sunday around the world.

Adoption After Infertility

In a 2021 nationwide survey, more than one-third of adoptive parents said they were motivated to adopt after experiencing infertility.

We know that your path to considering adoption was not easy. Every person's experience with infertility is unique, but you always deserve respect, care, and compassion. As a trusted resource on adoption, NCFA can provide you with accurate, comprehensive information, tailored to your needs and perspective as a person who has already walked a difficult road towards starting or growing your family. NCFA is here to help you make a well-informed decision about adoption for your family.

Exploring international adoption? The Bulgaria Traditional Program might be the right fit for you! 

In a recent meeting with the Ministry of Justice and our partner organizations in Bulgaria, MOJ shared that there is a dire need for families in their traditional program, as they currently only have 222 families registered! 

In the Bulgaria Traditional Program a prospective adoptive family submits a Dossier directly to the Ministry of Justice for a direct match. Included in your Dossier are the child parameters that you are open to and approved for adopting – such as age, gender, history, special needs, siblings or not. The MOJ will then review your Dossier and refer a match to you of a child(ren) meeting your parameters. Because the Dossier is submitted and reviewed and approved by the MOJ at the beginning of the process, that means the time from match to travel is much shorter! After receipt of referral, you can expect to travel for your first trip to Bulgaria within 8 weeks! And more importantly, it means a child does not have to wait longer than necessary for a family to compile a Dossier.

Watch this video for a brief overview of our Bulgaria program. Interested in learning more? Please complete our Prospective Adoptive Parent form and MAA’s Family Engagement Coordinator will be in touch to answer all of your questions!

*TINT is free to New Jersey families ONLY*

Families home in October!

*Madison Adoption Associates will be closed November 24th & 25th for Thanksgiving!*

If you are not in a position to adopt right now, but still feel compelled to help, please know that you can always make a donation directly to Madison Adoption Associates. Your generous gift will be directed where it is needed most, whether that be to provide food and medical services to vulnerable children both domestically and internationally, to support MAA’s growing therapeutic support services for adoptive and foster families, to help ease the financial burden for adoptive families, and/or many other areas where MAA serves deserving children. So please – consider making a tax-deductible donation today, so that children around the world may have a chance for a brighter tomorrow.