For 80 years, Barker has served those connected to adoption, providing ethical, child-centered services and support that fully respect everyone's needs. It makes adoption-competent, trauma-informed counseling and support available to anyone—not just Barker clients, who are diverse in age, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. Expectant parents with crisis pregnancies access emotional support, education about adoption, and connections with community resources. (There are no fees and no one is turned away.) The adoption of older children in foster care is a critical societal responsibility – 25% of these youth otherwise “age out” of care and experience homelessness. Understanding this, Barker’s Project Wait No Longer recruits, trains, and supports permanent, loving families for some of the 100,000 adoption eligible older children in the foster care system.
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