November 2009- Celebrating National Adoption Month

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1. Set up an adoption display table at your place of worship. Display information about international and domestic adoption programs

2. Become a fan of Gladney on Facebook and join all the various pages! Gladney is also on MySpace and Linked In.

3. Ask your local government officials to issue a proclamation recognizing November as National Adoption Month

4. Donate a new outreach DVD to your local library

5. Contact your local high school newspaper advisor and see if a student would like to write a story about adoption.

6. Call Karin at 817-922-6073 for an email link to WFAA’s “Not So Perfect Parent” segments featuring Paige McCoy Smith

7. Ask a place of business if you can display a Gladney poster

8. Attend Gladney’s “Orphan Sunday” event at 4:00 PM in Mabee Hall, Broadcast live from Nashville with Steven Curtis Chapman

9. Wear a white adoption ribbon in support of NAM

10. Distribute Gladney brochures to a local Planned Parenthood or Crisis Pregnancy Center

11. Attend the Hope Award Luncheon at Gladney, honoring The Council for Life and recognizing the Dallas Gladney Family Association

12. Set up a tour of the Gladney Center with someone who can educate others about adoption. For example a minister, doctor , teacher or counselor

13. Donate children's vitamins to Gladney for the children living in orphanages

14. Wear a Gladney t-shirt

15. Request to give a testimonial about the miracle of adoption at your church. Your story is the most powerful and emotional tool you have in sharing the message of adoption

16. Write a letter to your OB/GYN office about Gladney’s lunch and learn opportunities

17. Send an outreach e-mail to friends and family. Call Karin at 817-922-6073 to have one forwarded to you

18. Send an encouraging card to Gladney birthmothers or children in orphanages (Gladney will forward it)

19. Wear a white adoption ribbon in support of NAM

20. Take a Gladney outreach bag to a local high school and give to the counselor and nurse

21. Volunteer to take the birthmothers in Gladney’s dorm on a fun weekend outing to the mall, out to lunch or to a movie

22. Ask worship leader to say a prayer for birthmothers, adoptive parents, children living in orphanages and children living in foster care

23. Read an adoption story book to your child's class

24. Distribute Gladney brochures to a local Crisis Pregnancy Center

25. Donate an adoption book and Gladney outreach DVD to your local library

26. Wear a white adoption ribbon in support of NAM

27. Send in all your outreach forms to Karin.matula @gladney.org

28. Wear a Gladney t-shirt

29. Wear a white adoption ribbon in support of NAM

30. Take Gladney brochures to your family doctor’s office