Sparrows Point Father Working To Help Prospective Parents Adopt Children

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SPARROWS POINT, Md. (WJZ) — Last year, a Sparrows Point begetter decided to marque it his ngo to assistance much radical follow children by starting a non-profit.

“I decided to beryllium an advocator for adoption,” said David Marshall, the laminitis and CEO of Journey to Josiah, named aft his lad who helium adopted successful 2017.

He began gathering the non-profit successful November 2020 aft helium took to Facebook to speech astir his adoption process.

“I told my adoption travel connected Facebook Live and I got an astonishing response,” said Marshall. “And past erstwhile I said I adopted him arsenic a azygous cheery man, radical were conscionable caput blown astir that.”

Now, helium is moving full-time to assistance families follow and is presently gathering up the non-profit. He said it volition assistance radical by answering their questions astir adoption, get them connected with resources and volition besides yet enactment with prospective parents to get them adoption grants.

He besides started a YouTube speech show, bearing the aforesaid sanction arsenic his non-profit, that highlights antithetic steps of the adoption process and features guests who speech astir their experiences with it.

While Marshall’s ngo is to assistance families of each antithetic backgrounds adopt, helium is paying peculiar attraction to advocating for prospective LGBT and African-American parents.

“With cheery families determination I volition accidental that determination is inactive a batch of discrimination,” helium said. “There are immoderate places inactive wherever they similar joined couples to azygous individuals, truthful I privation to beryllium that idiosyncratic who is opening to interruption those barriers.”

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If you privation to larn much astir Journey to Josiah, sojourn Marshall’s YouTube page.