A “Family Membership” certificate that a judge can sign for a newly adopted child and family. These can be copied onto nice card stock, used with a court or county seal, etc.
A template for an invitation letter that you can adapt to your court’s or office’s letter-head, in order to invite individuals or groups to your event.
A template for a National Adoption Day proclamation you can adapt to your court/county and take to your county commissioners. These make nice proclamations to read at events. We recommend asking the county administration no later than the end of October to place this on an agenda in early November.
A template of a press release that can be sent to your local newspaper. Though the AOC and DSHS will be sending out press releases to all media in participating counties, feel free to do your own as well.
Letter-to-the-editor template for a judge or court official or another official to write to the local newspaper. It would be best to adapt this template to your own court or to Washington state fact (see Fact Sheet in this section), but this letter could help you get started.
