Children’s Guild foster parent selected as Angels in Adoption honoree

Doreen Moore, a parent in The Children’s Guild’s Treatment Foster Care program, has been selected as a Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) Angels in Adoption honoree. Moore attended an award ceremony and gala in Washington, D.C., celebrated by members of Congress.

Moore was a treatment parent with The Children’s Guild for six years from 2008 to 2014. During that time, she created permanency for every youth placed in her home, adopting three children and obtaining guardianship of one. Moore ran out of space in her home in 2014, but a year later when one of her youth turned 18, returned to her biological family and space opened up, Moore welcomed another foster child.

Of Moore’s children, one girl was placed in her home in 2008 and was adopted in 2010. She attends 12th grade at Randallstown High School and plans to go to college. Two brothers were placed in Moore’s home in 2012, and they were adopted in 2014. One brother attends sixth grade at Deer Park Middle School, and the other attends fourth grade at Randallstown Elementary School.

“Ms. Moore has a way of interacting with our wounded youth that makes them feel loved, accepted, valued and most importantly a part of her family. If you saw this foster parent with her children at the grocery store, making a school visit, shopping at the mall or at church, you would not know that the children placed in her home were foster youth because she has formed such strong relationships with each one,” said Keisha Bryant, director of Family Life Education for The Children’s Guild.

CCAI’s Angels in Adoption Program provides members of Congress the opportunity to honor an individual, couple or organization from their district that have made an extraordinary contribution on behalf of children in need of homes. Honorees hail from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and represent the wide spectrum of individuals involved in the adoption and foster care process.