Recruitment
At Wednesday’s Child, we believe every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our Recruitment pillar focuses on finding compassionate individuals and families ready to open their hearts to children in need. Through education, support, and community outreach, we connect prospective foster and adoptive parents with the resources needed to provide stability and care. Join us in making a lasting impact—because every child deserves a family.
Our Approach to Fostering and Adoption
Our neighborhood has many mature trees, most homes are approximately 40 years old, sit on an acre or more land and we are located within 20 minutes of downtown Louisville. We have access to adoption specialists, trauma-informed therapists, ethnic restaurants and fairs, and our county’s public schools have more than 100 cultures represented. Matt and I think it’s important to keep our kids connected to their heritage. Their rooms are decorated with items from their birth countries, and we celebrate major holidays like Ethiopian and Chinese New Year with them. They have a great sense of pride regarding their native countries. Amarion and Kamiyah remain in a healthy, nurturing relationship with their maternal grandma and uncles. We spend a great deal of time together and invite them to our home often to celebrate their birthdays or holidays. We would welcome another open adoption and hope the feeling is reciprocated.
As you can tell, we have a great deal of experience with adoption and feel we could use it to navigate parenting an older child waiting from foster care or one from an adoption dissolution.
As we are older, we desire to adopt a child between the ages of 4 and 12. Each child that has joined our family has been carefully considered to determine if we could meet their needs physically, mentally, spiritually and developmentally. Since we are parenting adopted kids that do not share our complexion, we have surrounded ourselves with adult adoptees and individuals who can help us better understand growing up as a minority in the United States.
We understand colorism, racism, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, speech delays, developmental delays,
depression, ADHD, sexual abuse, severe neglect, and orphanage and institutionalized behaviors as we have children that have experienced all of these. We have a deep understanding of the primal wound and are trauma-informed. We have been an open foster home since 2018 and are required to do 10 hours of continuing education every year. Loving kids from hard places with complex backgrounds is what we do daily, and we are good at it.
Our last foster care placement was a sibling group of three girls aged 5 years old and younger and they were with our family for 10 months before they were reunited with their mom. We continue to stand alongside their family and see them often. Some books we’ve found most helpful to read were The Primal Wound, The Connected Child, The Weaver’s Craft and Parenting in Transracial Adoption.
As a family we enjoy spending time together hiking, traveling, visiting their adult siblings, working in the yard, swimming in our pool, going to church and our nightly mealtime. We arrange our entire day around our family dinner. It’s a time for us to reflect on the day, to offer support if a family member needs it or provide high fives. We are loud, but we are fun. We are close but we have our own space too. We enjoy our time together but are confident as individuals as well. The kids trust us to show up as listeners and we trust them to put their best foot forward personally, spiritually and academically. Our family’s foundation is built on respecting our differences, embracing our similarities and helping each other become the best version of ourselves.
A Message From The Peavley Family
It all comes down to love. The love we have in our marriage is eager to overflow into the next generation of our family in ways that we cannot do on our own. At the same time, there are so many incredible kids in the foster care system with untapped potential and love.
Children are in a unique and vulnerable position, as they do not have a choice in their circumstances. This does not make them “bad kids”. Rather, they need an environment that will see their value, loving them through the emotions they are processing and giving them a space to love again.
However, ultimately, we have a desire to join the foster care community because of God’s love for us. We are called to be intercessors in this world with a Kingdom mindset. What better way to do this than to welcome and unconditionally love these children in our home?
-Dan and Laura Peavley
You can help us connect amazing fosters and adoptive parents with the kids who need them.
"Our family’s foundation is built on respecting our differences, embracing our similarities and helping each other become the best version of ourselves."
-Breetz Family
"Ultimately, we have a desire to join the foster care community because of God’s love for us. We are called to be intercessors in this world with a Kingdom mindset. What better way to do this than to welcome and unconditionally love these children in our home?
-Dan and Laura Peavley
Our mission is to recruit and support foster and adoptive parents for children in state care, provide assistance to adoptive families, and equip youth who are waiting for adoption or transitioning to independent living
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