The National Adoption Center expands adoption opportunities for children living in foster care throughout the United States, and is a resource to families and to agencies who seek the permanency of caring homes for children.

The story began in the early 1970's when Paddy Noyes, an adoptive mother of a little girl, then considered "hard-to-place" because of her East Indian heritage, and Carolyn Johnson, who had adopted three children, wondered whether there were other families who would be interested in children who were not healthy infants.   More detail...