Adoption Education and Recruitment
A statewide program including general, targeted, and child-specific recruitment designed to educate citizens about the need for adoptive families for waiting children--children in the public foster care system who are harder to place. We work with more than 300 churches statewide to promote adoption awareness. Virginia One Church, One Child recruits adoptive families and conducts adoption information sessions and orientations-the early steps in the Virginia adoption process. Families wanting to proceed are then connected with either public departments of social services or private licensed child placing agencies for home study and placement services. Virginia One Church, One Child co-facilitates pre-adoptive parent training for prospective adoptive families and supports families throughout the process. Training also is the major focus of the VA One Church, One Child adoption conference held annually to launch Adoption Awareness month activities in Virginia.

Adoption Conference
Each year the Virginia One Church, One Child hosts an adoption conference that features workshops, exhibits, speakers, and other activities. Adoptive and foster families, social workers, advocates, recruiters, clergy, and others are invited.

Adoptive Family Support
Offers adoptive parent group activities for pre and post placement families. Adoptive families are invited to participate in weekend retreats designed to support the family and strengthen the family's capacity to maintain the placement. These retreats are offered through support from the Adoptive Family Preservation Project.

Family Assessment and Placement Services
The City of Richmond DSS, in partnership with VA OCOC, provides family assessments, completes homestudies, and offers child placement and post placement supervision services for those families within a 70-mile radius of Richmond, Virginia. The City of Richmond social worker office is located at the state headquarters of VA OCOC. Families recruited by the One Church, One Child from other areas of the state are connected to placing agencies contracted by VA DSS to provide those services closer to where families reside.