About NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION

Founded in 1980, the National Council For Adoption (NCFA) is a research, education, and advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the well-being of children, birthparents, and adoptive families by advocating for the positive option of adoption. NCFA is an adoption advocate and expert in the halls of power and the courts of public opinion, on behalf of all parties to adoption and its member adoption agencies around the country. Agenda Following is a summary of NCFA's adoption agenda to put children first Presenting adoption as a positive option for unplanned pregnancies Acting as global adoption ambassador through international adoption advocacy -Promoting adoptions out of foster care through court and financing reforms -Finding families for foster kids through parent recruitment and private agencies -Upholding the adoptive family as the adopted person?s true and permanent family -Serving birthmothers through sound counseling -Making adoption more affordable through the tax credit -Protecting mutual consent and confidentiality in adoption -Making adoptions and birthmothers more secure through putative father registries -Protecting newborns and at-risk parents through Safe Havens -Being the authoritative nonprofit adoption information clearinghouse -Promoting adoption awareness and understanding through the media