Source: https://adoptioncouncil.org
What if we could further journey with families, once adoption has been finalized, by offering Medical Care grants to help offset healthcare expenses?
This was the question Show Hope Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, asked themselves when dreaming how to further address the medical needs of children who are in need of a permanent, loving family through adoption.
That dream, which began percolating in the early days of 2020, became a reality later that fall when Show Hope awarded its first two Medical Care grants.
Of the more than 15 million children who have been orphaned around the world—having lost both parents—and the estimated 125,000 children in the U.S. Foster Care system who have had parental rights terminated, a majority of these children have complex medical and special needs. In 2014, one report showed that 88.5 percent of children involved in unrelated, domestic adoptions had special needs, and according to the adoption agency Holt International, 68 percent of the intercountry adoptions they processed in 2019 involved children with special needs.
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