In October 2022, CCAI continued its commitment to supporting orphans living in Ukraine. We received a request from an orphanage director to help transfer children from a highly unsafe area due to the bombing to a safer orphanage in Kyiv. CCAI was able to help purchase train tickets for the kids! Our Ukraine rep Lena spoke with the orphanage director: “I talked with the director of the Toretsk orphanage, and she is delighted you helped them so much. Now kids are in the Kyiv orphanage for the period of war; they are so happy to be there, and the discipline and care of the staff of the Kyiv orpha ..read more

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For those shopping on Amazon, you can support CCAI’s three-fold mission of finding permanent loving homes for children, reaching out to vulnerable children left behind, and continued support/education for adoptees and their families! Support CCAI while you shop! How simple is that? Amazon Smile is a simple way to support the organizations you love. With each eligible purchase, Amazon will donate 0.5% to CCAI! Amazon Smile offers the exact shipping and prices as Amazon Prime. Support CCAI while you shop! Shop Amazon Smile To shop Amazon smile, click here, log into your account, and set CCAI as ..read more

Adoption has always been a part of our family planning dreams, even from the time we began dating. However, as tends to happen, time passed quickly and before we knew it, we had two children that were already 11 and 9! We couldn’t imagine “starting over” with a younger child, but older child adoption seemed very scary…  Had we “missed the window”?  Hosting-to-Adopt One Monday evening a blog found its way into my inbox about Project 143, an orphan hosting program. Color me intrigued. By the time my husband Justin came home, I basically had a PowerPoint Presentation about why we should ..read more

Expanding our Family through Adoption We never imagined that expanding our family through adoption would be a seven-year journey, but everything turned out exactly how it was supposed to.  It’s funny we can say that now, but we dealt with frustration, disappointment, and doubt during those seven years. Re-filling out paperwork, hearing no positive updates year after year, and reading about the disintegration of Haitian law and order was challenging to endure, but it forced my husband and me to put our trust in God’s plan to grow our family through adoption. That whole time we were experie ..read more

It’s November, which means it’s National Adoption Month! There are many ways to celebrate together as a family. To celebrate your child’s adoption, tell your child’s adoption story together and have each family member share from their unique perspective. In addition, create a book together through Shutterfly or blurb.com. Watch positive adoption-related movies as a family. Meet the Robinsons The Odd Life of Timothy Green ELF Annie (2014 version) Chimpanzee Documentary (Disneynature documentary) Tigger Movie Despicable Me 1 and 2 Kung Fu Panda 1, 2 and 3 Anne of Green Gables The Great Gilly ..read more

Shan Shan is receiving specialized services at the orphanage through CCAI’s One-on-One Education Program. One-on-One Education Twelve-year-old Shan Shan was painfully shy and insecure when we first met her at the Yingtan Orphanage in Jiangxi Province.  Every day her friends went to school while she stayed behind due to her paralysis.  When CCAI’s Charity Team asked for her wish, she said, “I also want to be a student!” After discussing with her orphanage director, CCAI searched for a private tutor willing to come to the Orphanage every day and teach her math, art, and language. In ju ..read more

October is Spina Bifida Awareness Month! Get to know an incredible family that is raising a beautiful daughter with Spina Bifida by reading below. On this side of things, it’s difficult for us to believe that fear was what once held our family back from discovering some of its greatest treasures. We were afraid of what we did not know or understand and had not yet experienced. Thankfully, a short, grainy video from halfway around the world would dissipate all that fear, shift us from our comfort zone, and pivot our mindset from trepidation to one of expectant, accepting, and purposeful hope. K ..read more

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month! Meet the Romeros! They are raising two beautiful kids with Down syndrome– their son is biological, and their daughter, Liv, is adopted from Ukraine. What is life like raising Liv? Read below to find out! Liv is enjoying family time at the Lake. We adopted our adorable 3-year-old daughter Livia from Ukraine in August 2020. Since Livia has Down syndrome, she has developmental delays and some additional medical needs that require a bit more attention. We have a fantastic therapy team that includes a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a speech ..read more

Read below to learn about how the McPartland family is thriving through ADHD. McPartland son in Taiwan and at home in US. “We do timers for meals, repeating 3 step directions, eye contact, eye contact, eye contact, eye contact, identifying feelings, and learning how to cope with feelings (breaks or Trauma Release Exercises).“ Our son was diagnosed with ADHD, among other diagnoses in Taiwan.  We have been home for 14 months and ADHD seems to be the most prevalent diagnosis. When we adopted, he was 6 ½ years old and full of spunk. He still is! Being a special education teacher, I have e ..read more