What We Do

Kidsave’s Family Visit Model combines best practices in social work and family recruiting to create caring, connected relationships for older children without parents. It is being used in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Family Services, the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency, the Instituto Colombiano Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) in Colombia, and the Administration of the Smolensk and Sakhalin Regions of Russia. Kidsave’s family visit model has also become the gold standard for many international adoption agencies who seek families for older children.

The Family Visit Model draws from a broad base of research on orphaned and abandoned children's needs and how best to meet those needs. Unlike most adoption agency models that focus on finding children for families, Kidsave's model focuses on finding families for children.

Weekend Miracles/Russia

Family Support

Throughout the adoption and post-adoption process, families and children receive the support of social workers, therapists and other professionals to help them manage the transition for the child.

Kidsave Encuentros Milagrosos/Colombia

Plus Advocacy

Host families use their circles of friends to help the child meet people who might be possible adoptive families. Kidsave conducts events to enable people to meet the children. Media is used to attract attention to these children.

Weekend Miracles/LA

Mentors

Kidsave's model also matches children with mentors who serve as friends and supporters – and helps insure at least one lasting connection to a caring adult.

Kidsave Summer Miracles/DC

Family Visits

Kidsave's model gives older, overlooked foster youth in the USA and foreign orphans short-term visits with families for a summer or weekends.