Children’s Action Network (CAN) uses the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and to make them a top priority in everyday life.
CAN is currently dedicated to finding homes for the more than 107,000 children in
the United States who are waiting for an adoptive
family and improving outcomes for the more
than 500,000 children in
foster care.
Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family.
Children's Action Network is proud to announce that Executive Director Jennifer Perry was presented with the Nancy Daly Advocacy Award at the Lewis Hine Awards for Service to Children and Youth by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) on Monday, January 28th in New York. Named for the acclaimed NCLC photographer who documented early-20th century exploitation of children, the Lewis Hine Awards honor those individuals who, as professionals or volunteers, give of themselves and go the extra mile for the well-being of young people. The Nancy Daly Advocacy Award memorializes the late Los Angeles activist and philanthropist Nancy Daly whose continuous efforts over many years provided support and opportunity for thousands of young people.
National Adoption Day NOVEMBER 17, 2012
More than 4,500 children in foster care found their forever families during the 12th annual National Adoption Day celebration in 400 cities across the United States. Thanks to the efforts of adoption advocates, policymakers, judges and lawyers, nearly 40,000 children have been adopted from foster care on National Adoption Day since 2000.
Adoption Tax Credit
Children's Action Network, Along With 30 National Organizations Thank President Obama for Extending the Adoption Tax Credit
Did you know that if you adopt a child from the foster care system you are eligible for a tax credit? Click here
to learn more.
Adoption Tax Credit
Children's Action Network, Along With 30 National Organizations Thank President Obama for Extending the Adoption Tax Credit
Did you know that if you adopt a child from the foster care system you are eligible for a tax credit?
Here are the facts:
Since 2003, families who adopted a U.S. child with special needs from foster care could claim a federal adoption tax credit even if they had no adoption expenses (as long as they met the fairly generous income requirements).
Children who receive adoption assistance/subsidy benefits are considered children with special needs. Even families who receive a deferred subsidy ($0 per month but medical coverage through the subsidy program) are eligible.
All adoptive families (except those who adopted a step-child) are eligible for the credit, but those who adopt children other than those with special needs must have—and be able to document, if requested by the IRS—qualified adoption expenses.
For 2010 and 2011 the credit was made refundable. If parents who adopted as long ago as 2005 had credit to carryforward into 2010, that amount of the credit also became refundable. In 2010 and 2011, parents can claim the credit even if they don’t have income or any tax liability.
The amount of the credit for 2011 is $13,360 per child.
Children's Action Network has teamed up with
Good Day LA and Fox 11 to bring you the stories of foster children waiting for adoptive homes.
These films, part of a series called "Change a Child's Life" feature Los Angeles area foster children telling their own stories in their own words.There are more
than 107,000 foster children in the United States who need a place to call home.
It is our hope that by raising awareness about the youth and sharing their hopes
and dreams we can help them find permanent loving families.
Click here to watch more films of children
in foster care waiting for a loving family.
Click here for a list of Foster Family Agencies
in Los Angeles County
Felicitas and Maria
Click here to contact Children's Action Network at caninformation@aol.com
to find out more about a child featured in this film
and the foster care adoption process
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