LOCAL ADOPTIVE MOM CHOSEN AS A 2022 CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE (CCAI) ANGELS IN ADOPTION® HONOREE FROM MISSOU
LOCAL ADOPTIVE MOM CHOSEN AS A 2022 CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE (CCAI) ANGELS IN ADOPTION® HONOREE FROM MISSOURI WITH SENATOR BLUNT
Adoptive mom of a sibling pair and author, Marcy Bursac, selected to travel to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for CCAI’s Angels in Adoption® Leadership Program.
St. Louis, MO – Because of her tremendous work in the adoption, foster care, and the child welfare community, Marcy will be traveling to Washington, DC Sept. 20-21, 2022 to participate in congressional meetings with federal policymakers, receive advocacy training and education training, meet with fellow advocates, and receive recognition at the Angels Celebration. Honorees represent a wide spectrum of individuals involved in child welfare who are making a difference. Since the program’s inception in 1999, more than 2,900 Angels have received this honor.
About the Marcy Bursac
Adoption was Marcy's Plan A. She and her husband adopted a biological sibling pair.
Marcy blogged her family’s experience navigating the foster care adoption process and is often asked to teach others how to do the same. Feeling called to scale these conversations, in November 2020 Marcy wrote and self-published “The Forgotten Adoption Option” a 90-page paperback and ebook and 90-minute audiobook. A month later she launched The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast to spotlight those that have been adopted through foster care, adoptive parents, and how to adopt children who are waiting in the foster care system. She regularly speaks around the nation teaching what foster care adoption is and who waiting children are. To date, she has reached more than 4,000 prospective forever families.
During National Foster Care Month 2022, Marcy published a children's book "Are You a Forever Family?" to invite readers to celebrate forever families and to consider becoming one themself.
Her intention has been to help one child, because that made the work all worth it. But her adopted daughter saw a different vision, “Mom, maybe they’ll be like you and Dad and adopt two children.” Her daughter was right. Two of the families Marcy has coached are each currently in the process of adopting a sibling pair!
Marcy has a full-time corporate career, is a mom, an MBA student at Maryville University, and intentionally invests time to finding forever families for the remaining 115,000 children who are waiting in foster care to be adopted.
To learn more about Marcy, you can follow her on LinkedIn and Instagram.
ABOUT CCAI
Founded in 2001, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to raising awareness about the millions of children around the world in need of safe and nurturing families and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right to a family. The creation of CCAI sought to match the commitment of Members of Congress' Adoption Caucus, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, with the information and resources needed to make the dream of a family a reality for every child.
Although the Adoption Caucus (CCA) and CCAI are distinct entities, they are closely linked in partnership. Over 160 Members of the 117th Congress have joined and are actively engaged in supporting legislation and policy that improves the lives of children and families in the United States and around the world. Both the CCA and CCAI are deeply committed to bipartisanship, strengthening families, and permanency. When Members of Congress hear direct experiences of those affected by child welfare systems, they become engaged in this issue and work to bring about legislative improvements to ensure each child's right to a family is realized. As a convener, CCAI brings together voices of experience and expertise to the U.S. Congress.
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