23rd Annual ‘A Home For The Holidays At The Grove’ Comes To CBS On Sunday, December 5th

(CBS) – CBS presents the 23rd Annual A Home For The Holidays At The Grove , featuring uplifting stories of adoption from foster attraction and raising consciousness of this important societal issue, to beryllium broadcast Sunday, December 5th astatine 9:30-10:30 PM, ET/9:00-10:00 PM, PT connected CBS, and disposable to watercourse unrecorded and connected request with Paramount+.

The special, which was filmed astatine famed retail, eating and amusement destination the Grove successful Los Angeles, volition heighten the inspirational stories of respective American families with performances by bonzer artists, including Justin Bieber, Kane Brown, Alessia Cara and Darren Criss. In addition, Kane Brown volition present the Rodriguez household for a peculiar unrecorded adoption.

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For the past 2 decades, the award-winning peculiar has shined a airy connected the thousands of American children successful foster attraction and has inspired tens of thousands of adoptions, moving these children into loving “forever families.”

Currently, determination are much than 400,000 children successful foster attraction successful the U.S. who are hoping for a “forever home.” Foster children pb a hard life. Only fractional postgraduate from precocious school; 5 percent postgraduate college; and wrong 4 years of aging out, 50 percent extremity up homeless. As this peculiar illustrates, fixed a location and a chance, these children tin thrive and spell connected to pb exemplary, adjacent extraordinary, lives.

The stories featured connected this year’s peculiar volition include:

The Healy Family

From the clip Celia was 9 months aged until she was 12, she lived successful 9 antithetic homes, truthful galore that she can’t retrieve the faces and places. She was taxable to changeless maltreatment and often told that she would extremity up precisely similar her mom, an addicted dropout who was large astatine 15. Trish and Andy Healy are Australian natives and had ever wanted to follow an older child. When Celia joined their family, they were shocked astatine however overmuch she had endured, but inspired by her resilience. Celia felt harmless for the archetypal clip successful her life, knowing she was portion of a loving family. Her grades and her assurance soared. Now a freshman astatine UCLA, she is bright, strong, and connected way for an astonishing life.

The Polk Family

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When Christopher was born, helium was near astatine the infirmary by his mother, who struggled with substance abuse. He was adopted and raised by his grandmother. He met his husband, Jacari, successful 2006 and they joined successful 2011. When it came clip for the mates to adopt, they were matched with Knox, a 1-year-old lad who was calved portion his parent was successful jailhouse and had been subjected to neglect. With the similarities to Christopher’s story, the mates knew that this was meant to be. The Polks are present a blessed trio. Knox is simply a thriving 3-year-old who loves motorcycle riding and soccer. Christopher and Jacari some accidental that the time the adoption was finalized was the champion time of their lives.

The Ambrose Family

Brian and Heather ever wanted a ample family. They had 3 daughters biologically, but gestation complications with their 3rd led them to adoption. With the summation of a babe boy, Carter, they felt their household was complete. When Carter was 4, they learned that Carter had a biologic sister, Linden, 11 months old. The Ambroses were unprepared for different baby, but they opened their location and their hearts to this small girl, and 2 years later, they can’t ideate beingness without her.

The Rodriguez Family

Marjorie was placed successful foster attraction arsenic a toddler. By the clip she was 5 years old, she had lived successful six antithetic homes, wherever she had been subjected to neglect and abuse. Celine and Jerry Rodriguez were told astir Marjorie, and their hearts went retired to her. They decided that this small miss would implicit their family. At first, Marjorie was reserved, but they showered her with emotion and attention, and she blossomed into a beauteous and well-adjusted girl. They each can’t hold for the adoption to beryllium finalized and for Marjorie to beryllium a portion of their everlastingly family.

The peculiar is presented successful relation with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Children’s Action Network. Wendy’s laminitis Dave Thomas, who was adopted, established the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, which is dedicated to dramatically expanding the adoptions of children successful North America’s foster attraction system. The Children’s Action Network was founded successful 1990 by leaders successful the amusement manufacture to harness the powerfulness of the amusement media connected behalf of children.

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