Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family

Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family

Arizona Recognizes November 2018 as Arizona Adoption Awareness Month

November 1, 2018

PHOENIX — Former Governor Ducey proclaimed November 2018 as Arizona Adoption Awareness Month to encourage all citizens, communities, and supporting organizations to renew their commitment to match all Arizonan children who need a forever family with a loving adoptive family. 

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WHEREAS, the State of Arizona recognizes the importance of giving children who cannot safely reunify with their birth families a permanent, safe, and nurturing family through adoption; and 

WHEREAS, state and private agencies work collaboratively with the courts, community members, and members of faith-based organizations to unite children and adults through the process of adoption; and 

WHEREAS, adoption places children into loving, permanent homes where they can flourish and grow up to become happy, healthy, productive members of our community; and

WHEREAS, adopting a child is a great joy but also a great responsibility for adoptive families and the communities who support the families who care for them; and 

WHEREAS, every successful adoption is more than an achievement for these children and their adoptive families; it is a story in which all Arizonans can share. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of the State of Arizona, do hereby proclaim November 2018 as 

ARIZONA ADOPTION AWARENESS MONTH 

and urge all citizens, communities, and support organizations to renew our commitment to match all children who need a forever family with a loving, adoptive family.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the Great Seal of the State of Arizona 

GOVERNOR

DONE at the Capitol in Phoenix on this second day of October in the year
Two Thousand and Eighteen and of the Independence of the United States of America
the Two Hundred and Forty-Third. 

ATTEST:

SECRETARY OF STATE

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