Wendy’s Wonderful Kids
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is making a difference for thousands of children—one child at a time. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption awards grants to public and private adoption agencies to hire adoption professionals who implement proactive, child-focused recruitment programs targeted exclusively on moving North America’s longest-waiting children from foster care into adoptive families.
Our recruiters
These professionals, known as Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters, work on caseloads of children the system has forgotten, ensuring they have the time and resources to give each child as much attention as he or she deserves. These recruiters employ aggressive practices and proven tactics focused on finding the best home for a child through the starting points of familiar circles of family, friends, and neighbours, and then reaching out to the communities in which they live.
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids has 122 recruiters working for children throughout the U.S. and Canada. The program has helped more than 2,000 children get adopted by their forever families.
Our successes
91 children adopted
230 children matched
53 children in pre-adoptive homes
350 children served
As of January 20, 2012