Hawai`i held its 2nd annual National Adoption Day Celebration on Friday, November 14, 2008.  Twenty-eight Hawaii children were officially adopted by forever families on this day.  Afterwards a joyous celebration was held in front of the court house on Oahu.

Click on this link to read all about it  and to see a video clip of the event:

KHNL News Coverage of Hawaii’s National Adoption Day

The Hawai`i Foster Parent Association sends out a big mahalo to all who made this event possible including HOPE INC, the First Circuit Family Court Judges and Staff, the Department of Human Services, Deputy Attorney Generals, GALs, VGALs, Heart Gallery Hawai`i, Hawai`i Adoption and Permanency Alliance, Catholic Charities Hawai`i, Child & Family Services,  Hawai`i International Child, Hui Ho’omalu, Partners In Development Foundation, Family Programs Hawai`i, Kokua Ohana, Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i and our heroes, Hawai`i’s foster and adoptive families.