Stories of Impact
Village adoptees and adoptive parents returned to The Village’s 1680 Albany Avenue campus for the first time in decades at a special reunion event in 2025. They shared powerful stories ...
Vourn’s journey with The Village began unexpectedly — through Children’s Services Horse Show in Farmington, which once served as both a fundraiser for the organization and a qualifying event for ...
John and his wife had been thinking about adoption. When they attended a meeting at The Village to learn more about the process, they were told that there would soon ...
Camille and her husband wanted to start a family, and like Nancy and her husband, decided their path would be through adoption. Camille remembers the day she received the phone ...
Nancy and her husband did not think that they could have children of their own, but they were ready to welcome a baby into their loving home. They contacted The ...
Heidi was the second child that her parents adopted from The Village, which is when her father gave her Bunky, her stuffed monkey that has been with her for 61 ...
When Janet was a baby, her biological mother sought support from The Village with the hopes of being able to keep Janet. She was a single mother in the 1960s ...
Scott knew he had been adopted from an early age. When he reached out to The Village to find out more about his early life, he learned about the challenges ...
Soon after the campus opened in 1925, The Village played a crucial role for Susan Ratzan’s family, long before Susan was even born. Susan’s grandmother was a very resourceful woman, ...