Meet this year's Create! Birthparent Arts Grant winner, Sydney S., who combined artistic creativity with entrepreneurship, using her art to solve a real-world problem. Buying Birthday, Mother's Day, and other holiday cards can be a real challenge for adoption constellation members, because the pre-written greetings often don't match our relationships or experiences. Sydney developed a line of greeting cards specifically for those relationships, giving adoptive parents, adopted people, and birthparents new ways to connect through cards and messages created especially for them.

We put together a comprehensive, state-by-state resource list for anyone currently struggling with food insecurity. Please use this if you need it, and send the link to anyone you know who may be struggling right now and in need of help.

This week, drawing on decades of research, along with the lived experiences of the thousands of birthparents we have supported over the past twenty-five years, our staff talks candidly about what it really takes to build a long-lasting and healthy open adoption relationship between birthparents and adoptive parents. We are not just describing the general landscape of adoption; we are handing adoptive parents and adoption professionals a comprehensive guide filled with the evidence-based tools and best practices needed to transform good intentions into healthy, child-centered adoption relationships.