When you are preparing to adopt from foster care, you want the professionals working on behalf of waiting children to understand what your family has to offer. Your home study provides important information, but your family’s story also includes everyday moments, shared interests, relationships, and the strengths you bring to parenting.
At HOAA, we are excited to introduce Family Connect by eNoble, a new platform that helps us share that story with qualified adoption agencies and caseworkers. We are confident this tool will strengthen our ability to communicate your family’s interest in adopting and help professionals consider which children’s needs you may be prepared to meet.
What Is Family Connect?
Family Connect gives HOAA another way to introduce prospective adoptive families to professionals working to find permanent homes for children.
With your permission, HOAA can share a family profile that highlights your household, interests, parenting experience, support system, and readiness to adopt. Photographs and personal details help bring your family’s story to life, giving professionals a fuller picture of the home and relationships you could offer a child.
The platform supports an essential part of adoption from foster care: connecting professionals who know children’s needs with professionals who know prospective families.
Why Does Sharing Your Family’s Story Matter?
A successful adoption begins with understanding what a child needs to feel safe, supported, and connected—and identifying a family prepared to provide that care.
Perhaps your family has experience advocating for educational services. You may have a strong support network, an understanding of trauma, or the willingness to help siblings maintain important relationships. These strengths can be meaningful when a caseworker is considering potential families for a particular child.
Family Connect helps HOAA communicate those qualities alongside your adoption preferences and home study information. Our focus remains on identifying children whose needs your family can best meet.
How Does Family Connect Support HOAA’s Services?
Family Connect adds another tool to HOAA’s child search and support services. It helps us share information about participating families and support collaboration with qualified agencies and caseworkers.
Our team continues to guide families through the search process, help them consider potential opportunities, and discuss the needs of children being considered. A profile can open the door to a conversation; thoughtful assessment and preparation remain essential to determining whether a placement may be appropriate.
How Can You Learn More?
We are hopeful about the connections Family Connect can help create and excited to offer families another way to share their interest in adoption.
Contact HOAA about participating. Our team can explain how the platform fits into your child search and help you prepare a profile that reflects your family’s strengths.
Every waiting child deserves a family prepared to embrace who they are. We look forward to using this new tool to support that goal.
