To effectively get started in advocating for families, you need to find your focus. You may feel frustrated when you see the many ways systems fail to serve families, but your desire to want to fix everything can paralyze your efforts. To be effective, you need to identify the specific problem you want to try to solve and move on from there.

Download an 8 page fact sheet on advocacy, produced by the North American Council on Adoptable Children under an Adoption Opportunities grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.