Join us in celebrating our adoptive families and all those who support them!
Interested in adoption? Learn about the Foster Care and Adoption program and how you can help us offer more foster homes that reflect the cultural diversity of our community.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors proclaimed November as Adoption Awareness Month. This is a special time to recognize the powerful love families show when they adopt a child through foster care, and to raise awareness about the ways that the county continues to support families post adoption.
In July 2025, Aamir and Tovoia Johnson, with their biological children Aamir Jr and Taliyah, adopted four young brothers who entered foster care in November 2022. The Department of Family Services reached out to the Johnsons in December 2022 during a search for possible relative placements. Despite not having a close relationship with the children’s biological father up to that point, Aamir and Tovoia felt compelled to step in and care for their family member’s children. They completed the home study process in Maryland, and the children, two of whom have special needs, gradually moved into their home between the end of September to October 2023. Learn more about this special family through this video.
Check out this webinar recording that features a panel discussion sharing a powerful kinship adoption story. It celebrates the importance of family in all its forms. It emphasizes how adoption and kinship care provide opportunities to reconnect children with love, stability, and belonging. It highlights the resilience of families and the enduring power of relationships to create a foundation where youth can thrive.
Meet Don and Emily, who became Fairfax County foster parents in 2018. After providing respite care for a couple of children, they welcomed 15-month-old Angel into their home in 2021 and adopted him in 2024. Don and Emily developed a close relationship with Angel’s biological family along the way, which has been a blessing to everyone. Angel, who is now an active 4-year-old, is receiving the care and support he needs from the whole family and he is thriving. Check out the video to learn more about this family and how their choice to foster has led to such joy.
Meet Fairfax County foster parents, Tremayne and Bryant. This couple received their first foster care placement, Smith, on July 13, 2020, when he was only 11 days old. So far, this has been their only placement and it resulted in the family adopting Smith. Learn more about Tremayne and Bryant’s story and how they work together as a team with the department to keep Smith connected with his birth family and relatives. Check out their video.
These are the true stories of Fairfax County Foster Care and Adoption. They are stories of hope, endurance, acceptance, sacrifice, belonging, and most of all love. These success stories reveal how lives have been improved and families formed, reunited, and strengthened through the support of professionals working in foster care and adoption. Check out our success stories.
Check out this interview with Fairfax County Foster Care and Adoption specialist Jessica Moser. Learn about the value of adoption from foster care and ways the Department of Family Services supports families considering this path.
Consulte esta entrevista con Melissa Alba, especialista en Acogida Temporal y Adopción del Condado de Fairfax. Conozca el valor de la adopción desde el acogimiento temporal y las formas en que el Departamento de Servicios Familiares apoya a las familias que están considerando este camino. También puedes escuchar el podcast.
Meet some of the wonderful children awaiting adoption through the Department of Family Services, or check out the state listing of children awaiting adoption throughout Virginia.
There are many older children and youth or sibling groups who can benefit from the support of loving families to help them succeed in life. Please share their profiles and videos to help them find permanent families.
Join the conversation on social media and help raise awareness about adoption from foster care. Use the graphics and messages in our community engagement toolkit to spread the word through social media.
For more statistics about Foster Care and Adoption in Fairfax County, check out these resources.
Our monthly Foster Family Newsletter provides a window into the experiences of foster and adoptive parents, children in care, alumni of foster care, and the resource workers who support them. It also includes pertinent information on a variety of services and supports that are available for Fairfax County foster and adoptive families. Check out the latest newsletter.
