Camden County Celebrates National Adoption Day

press release

To celebrate National Adoption Day, which is Saturday, November 21, the Camden County Surrogate’s Court sponsors three events, two expos on adoption, open to the public, and one event, in conjunction with the Superior Court, to celebrate adoptive families by finalizing 200 hundred adoptions in a single day, followed by lunch and dessert served by the Surrogate’s office and the judges and the staff of Superior Court.

Camden County surrogate, Patricia Jones, says these events help to underscore the importance of adoptions as well as celebrating adoptions with the families.

For the last four years, the Camden County Surrogate’s Court has sponsored an Adoption Expo at the Cherry Hill Mall and the Mall at Voorhees Town Center.

It will take place at Cherry Hill Mall on Saturday, November 14th in the Grand Court from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., and at The Mall at Voorhees Town Center on Sunday, November 15th in Boscov’s Court from noon-3 p.m.

Representatives from the NJ Department of Children and Families and a host of private adoption agencies will be on hand to distribute literature, answer questions and tell people why adoption works, and how to begin the process.

On Friday, November 20, the Camden County Surrogate’s Court will celebrate National Adoption Day by finalizing the adoptions of a number of children in a single day. Between 25-35 families are expected to attend. Adoptions reflect adoptions of babies to older children and teens who have been in foster care.

The Surrogate will host a luncheon from noon- 1p.m. for all families, agency representatives, attorneys and judicial staff. The families will then move to the Hall of Justice for a dessert reception in the Jury Assembly Room on the lower level.

The Surrogate’s Office gives all the children who attend books. The Superior Court justices give all the children teddy bears and certificates.

Surrogate Jones, Superior Court Judge Charles Rand who is the presiding judge of the Family Division of Superior Court, and Judges Octavia Melendez and Charles W. Dortch, Jr. are leaders in this annual event. Judge Melendez was a lawyer at DYFS before becoming a Superior Court judge.

via www.camdencounty.com