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Representation Matters: Affirming Girls of Color
Meet some of the families formed through adoption at The Cradle.
This video features the Class of 2021 and some families from our Class of 2020.
With the surge of the Omicron variant this holiday season, we rounded up some resources to keep you and your family safe, and physically and mentally healthy.
As we wrap up the warm summer months, families are preparing for the start of the school year. Fresh clothes, new shoes and organizing backpacks filled with classroom supplies can be exciting. It can also be stressful.
As we celebrate the stories from our Cradle family, Penelope Savalas Boardman shares her Cradle connection - her son, Dmitry:
“When Dmitry was three years old, as I was tucking him into bed one evening, he said:
‘Mama, when I was a baby, I needed you and you came to get me.’
Even in families that have great communication and talk openly about adoption, tweens and teens face challenges they may not talk to you about.
Thank you to those who attended the Our Children Webinar titled Black Children and Mental Health. Thank you to our panel of therapists and parents, for sharing your knowledge and insight about children who struggle with variou
The dinner table is not always an easy place. Foster and adopted children often have challenges such as food insecurity, food hoarding and preoccupation, picky and selective eating, and sensory challenges.
The documentary Closure is a story that follows the life of an adopted person in her quest to find her birth parents.The essence of the story, as I saw it, was about the need for a
Peek into the Cradle Nursery on the 3rd floor of our Evanston building and you will see a bustle of activity, delivered in an atmosphere of peace and calm.