One Church, One Child of Florida:
Adoption Program Purpose and Objectives

Purpose:

One Church, One Child of Florida Corporation is organized for the purpose of providing services to adoptable children and increasing children’s potential for placement in a permanent family home; participating in charitable work; involving persons with religious and clerical expertise; providing literacy and educational guidance; promoting child welfare services to children and supporting families.

Objectives:

• To facilitate and develop campaigns that recruit appropriate shelter, foster and adoptive families for children;
• To develop and implement innovative approaches that reduce the length of stay for children in foster care who are available for adoption;
• To educate the broader community about the plight of children in foster care;
• Provide training and technical assistance geared toward the adoption of children by families and their communities;
• To develop corporate public/private sponsorship to help support program service delivery;
• To develop, monitor and evaluate projects designed to address the needs of children in the child welfare system; and
• To provide retention and support services to families.