The Dave Thomas Foundation has awarded a generous grant to the Children's Home of the Wyoming Conference. The grant will allow staffer Linda Pipkin to devote herself full-time to the business of finding adoptive parents for the children in the home.

"She'll look first at foster families who have grown close to a child in their home. Maybe adoption is a possibility? She'll also determine which adults may have been significant in a child's life at one point or another. Perhaps those adults are able to commit to adopting the child. Actively recruiting families, she hopes, will result in more stable situations for those 89 children who desperately need stability and permanency in their lives."

The grant comes from a program called Wendy's Wonderful Kids. The program's specific vision is to help foster care and adoption agencies hire full-time recruiters who can devote all their time to matching children with adoptive families.

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