This includes single working-mother Alyssa Gutierrez and her 2-year-old son, Ezra. After a two-year-long process where she was called one day at work and asked if she could be Ezra's mom after he was born, it was an immediate yes.
On Saturday, which was National Adoption Day at San Joaquin County Superior Court, it became official.
Gutierrez said Ezra was born to her older cousin but they decided she wasn't fit and that a family member needed to take care of him. After calling two family members, who Gutierrez said didn't have the time and weren't able to, her name was brought up as someone who could help.
"Seeing him grow and him becoming his little person with his little personalities and his little hobbies and his little interests, he's (a) very energetic kid," Gutierrez said. "Just seeing him learn and just become such a smart little boy, it's very rewarding."
"What I enjoy most about being a parent is just the feel of his love," she said. "When we go out to do anything and you could just see he looks up to me and in his eyes, I'm like this very important person."
"If anyone's thinking about adopting or fostering, I would say do it," Gutierrez said. "There are a lot of kids who need homes. They need the village. A lot of kids that are in the system, they don't have family. They don't have the support. They don't have anything. So, fostering and adopting is very important to guide people and to do that, so that we can provide homes for the kids that actually need it."
"Adoption is always our permanent place for children," Shawn Dunn, San Joaquin County Human Services Agency adoption supervisor, said. "So, our hope is they reunify with their parents and if they can't, providing permanency through adoption."
"We have a variety of issues that happen in our county, from homelessness to drug use, and so for those children that can't be with their parents in a safe home, we always need foster parents to come in and take in those children," Dunn said.
For anyone who'd like to adopt or foster kids, you can start by calling either a foster family agency or the county. If you'd like to adopt or foster a kid in San Joaquin County, you can call 209-465-KIDS.
Melody GallawayDunn also said there was a very rewarding moment for her on National Adoption Day, with four siblings being adopted by their relatives. She was so happy to see them go to their forever home.
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