One Church-one Child
Clements started the One Church-One Child program locally in Chicago at Holy Angels Church in 1980. Though the program was started locally in Chicago, it became a national effort in 1988. The goal of the program was to use churches as a recruitment tool to find adoptive parents for African-American children, a demographic group that often has disproportionately long adoption waiting periods.
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“Behold here the fate of a sailor! They give him the last toss, and no one asks whose child he was.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)