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That's right! We are looking for our next leader. Could it be you? Amara is celebrating 100 years of commitment to children and families in our community and we need someone to carry us into the future. 

When a child enters foster care, it’s traumatic for everyone involved. But two families share how creating deeper bonds with each other can help everyone, especially the child at the center. Learn more about Shrounda, Amy, King, and how they built these powerful family connections.

By the time Yuvia came to stay with Yvette she had already been in multiple foster homes. But this was different. Yuvia’s mother, Dezaray, and foster parent Yvette developed a support system with and for each other in order to be there for Yuvia. Like Yuvia says, “When we’re all here together, I think: family,

"The primary goal of the foster care system is to reunite children with their biological families,” said Trey Rabun, Associate Director of Kinship and Community Services at Amara, a foster care agency in Seattle, Wash. “But the care and stability they provided remains with that child forever.”

To say that 2020 was a challenging year would be a massive understatement.  Throughout the US, the pandemic has impacted the ability of nonprofit organizations like Amara to operate as planned. No matter who you are, we have all worked hard to mitigate the public health and economic impacts on our work and in our

The final days of 2020 brought a significant news story highlighting claims of ongoing racism at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the final straw for one of the Pacific Northwest’s most respected, loved, and dedicated leaders who worked there. But, of course, Seattle Children’s Hospital is one of many white-led institutions (including Amara) that must take accountability for

Amara’s Director of Post-Adoption, Angela Tucker, was featured on the King5 series, “Facing Race,” about identities challenges that result from transracial adoption.  View story on King5 News  

Amara’s STAR (Strong, Tough, and Resilient) Adoptive Parent Group was featured in Parent Map for providing a virtual space for adoptive parents to build community. Read more at ParentMap

Thanksgiving kicks off a holiday season that includes Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. But for all the people who are celebrating with their loved ones, there are thousands of young people waiting for a forever home.