• Send a Walmart gift card to Catholic Charities Adoption Services to assist their birth families - 4200 S. I-10 Service Rd., W. Suite 124, Metairie, LA 70001
• Help support St. Joseph the Worker Respect for Life Ministry’s Aging Out of Foster Care shower.  They are collecting Walmart & Visa gift cards.  Send any cards to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 455 Ames BLVD, Marrero, LA  70072.  For more information contact their Church office. 

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• Catholic Charities Adoption Services
• Volunteers of America Greater New Orleans
• Louisiana Department of Health Adoption Informati on 
• Catholic Charities Therapeutic Family Services
• Foster Services  Catholic Charities Foster Grandparents 
• CrossroadsNOLA — foster care & adoption services
• Aging Out of Foster Care Parish Support  
• Support One Heart NOLA (Southshore) & James Storehouse (Northshore) in their missions to serve and support children in foster care and that aged-out of foster care
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• From Pope St. John Paul II's Address to the Meeting of the Adoptive Families organized by the Missionaries of Charity
  
  "Adopting children, regarding and treating them as one's own children, means recognizing that the relationship between parents and children is not measured only by genetic standards. Procreative love is first and foremost a gift of self. There is a form of 'procreation' which occurs through acceptance, concern and devotion. The resulting relationship is so intimate and enduring that it is in no way inferior to one based on a biological connection. When this is also juridically protected, as it is in adoption, in a family united by the stable bond of marriage, it assures the child that peaceful atmosphere and that paternal and maternal love which he needs for his full human development."