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MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) — There are thousands of children in the foster care system in the state of Alabama, and a need for adoptive families.

“They all need good, supportive homes,” said Brittany Popham, with Alabama Pre/Post Adoption Connections (APAC).

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APAC is an effort between the Children’s Aid Society of Alabama and the Alabama Department of Human Resources. Its goal is to help families prepare for and through the adoption process.

“We do all the training, home study, everything,” Popham said. “It’s a free service to you guys to help become forever families.”

She said every child, no matter their age, deserves a life-long family.

“We want families to step in and become forever families for those children that do not have a family to go back to, somebody to walk them down the aisle when they’re older, to teach them how to drive, to send them off to college, to do all those things …