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Weekend Miracles is an innovative program that provides foster youth the opportunity to meet people interested in mentoring, hosting or adopting older children. The children in our program are some of the 300 plus teenagers in the District of Colombia foster care system in need of a permanent family. Since older children are more likely to be adopted by someone they know, Weekend Miracles Family Events and advocacy activities fill a critical role of helping these children meet interested caring adults.
Help give a child the greatest gift imaginable – the opportunity for a permanent loving family – by supporting Weekend Miracles.
How to get involved
Become a Weekend Miracles Host Parent: Host parents welcome a child into their home for weekend visits and through advocacy and events, help other adults meet the child and learn of his/her desire to be adopted. Expanding the circle of individuals who know (or know of) the child makes it more likely that we will find an adoptive family for the child.
Read the Weekend Miracles Host FAQs (PDF)
Become a Weekend Miracles Mentor: Mentors provide a long-term commitment to a child, seeing them regularly and providing another source of support.
Become a Weekend Miracles Advocate: Advocates help children find adoptive families by speaking with other adults, sharing information and planning activities where interested adults can meet the children.
Become a Weekend Miracles Volunteer: Volunteers are always needed to help organize events, help with program promotion and more.
Want to learn more? Attend a Weekend Miracles Orientation as well as our Weekend Miracles Family Events. Family Events are held each month and provide adults and youth the opportunity to meet in a relaxed, fun environment.
To read the most recent issue of the DC Weekend Miracles newsletter, click here ».
For more information about Weekend Miracles DC, please call Susan Punnett at 202-280-6325 or email her at susan@kidsave.org
Weekend Miracles is a partnership between Kidsave and the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency. Partial funding is provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services through an Adoption Opportunities cooperative agreement, "Project Adopt Older Kids (A-OK!)."
 Kidsave thanks the Greater Washington Urban League for its partnership in support of children in the community who need families.
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