One17 Foundation

10/28/2025

Are you starting to research adoption? Beginning the process? In the middle of the process? All answers are reasons to stick around!�We have an outline on our website of what the adoption process can look like: "The Adoption Roadmap".

Check out our website at the link in our bio for more adoption resources + stories!

10/23/2025

Today, we want to share with you one of the most trusted adoption + foster care nonprofits/resources out there: .

They focus on producing stories and sharing resources that increase the number of people caring for children who are orphaned and vulnerable, to help them thrive! Our missions are very similar, and we love that they also have a focus on sharing stories.

If you haven't checked them out already, we can't recommend them enough - they're a fantastic hub for education and adoption resources.

https://thearchibaldproject.com/

10/20/2025

What goofy/fun things do your families like to watch over and over again? Wonky Donkey (the song AND the book) is a favorite for our whole fam, from the 2-year-olds to the 56-year-olds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDeQT9zCvi4

10/15/2025

Our Story: Part two of two 📚 Brooke dives into our goals as an organization, the meaning behind our name, why the torch was passed from her and Aaron to the Rains family, and hopes for the future!

10/13/2025

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today, we celebrate the diversity, resilience, history, and spirits of those who originally occupied this land. We stand with you today and always.

If you can, take some time today to educate yourself on Indigenous Americans and the history of America -- we have a lot to learn and a long way to go.

IllumiNative has shut down, but it is still a wonderful resource to start with:

We build knowledge through native-led research, and partner with leading Native scholars and institutes to obtain and disseminate groundbreaking data.

10/06/2025

Our Story: Part one of two 📖 🇨🇴 Brooke, one of our founders, shares the heart and history behind One17 - diving into why we were started and the original story that shaped our organization. Follow along for PART TWO next week

05/16/2025

A huge step for adoptees in Georgia! 👏

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 13, 2025
Governor Brian Kemp Signs SB100 “Andee’s Law,” Ending Decades of Discrimination Against Georgia Adoptees

ATLANTA, GA — In a landmark moment for adoptee rights, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed SB100 “Andee’s Law” into law today at the Georgia State Capitol, reversing more than six decades of sealed records and restoring a fundamental right to Georgia-born adopted people.

For 64 years, adult adoptees in Georgia were denied access to their own original birth certificates—a policy widely recognized as discriminatory and unjust. With today’s historic signing, that policy has come to an end.

Beginning July 1, 2025, Georgia-born adoptees aged 18 and older will be able to apply for and receive a copy of their original, pre-adoption birth certificate directly from the Georgia State Office of Vital Records—no court order required.

The Georgia Alliance for Adoptee Rights (GAAR), which has tirelessly advocated for this legislation, applauds the bipartisan support behind SB100 and the Governor’s commitment to adoptee equality.

GAAR will provide additional information and guidance about the application process in the coming weeks to help adoptees prepare for this long-awaited opportunity.

Contact:
Georgia Alliance for Adoptee Rights
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gaallianceforadopteerights.org

12/31/2024

If you're an individual or business looking to donate to a good cause at the end of 2024, please consider a tax-deductible donation to One17! We use all of our donations to help improve the lives of children who have been orphaned, abused, and under-served, and the lives of families who adopt them ❤️

✨ DONATE HERE: https://www.one-17.org/donations/online

12/25/2024

To those who celebrate, Merry Christmas from our family to yours! May the end of this year bring you love and joy aplenty 🎄

We're honored to have spent this year working alongside families and donors to create a ripple effect of care for children who are abused, under-served, and orphaned - we hope to continue creating ripples with you and tons of new friends through 2025.

WE LOVE YOU ALL ❤️ - The Rains Family

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12/25/2024

Brooke Wright, one of our founders, shares the heart and history of One17, which began in 2013 ❤️📙 Why was One17 started? Why do we focus on adoption stories? And what's the meaning behind our name?

12/21/2024

This holiday season, it's more vital than ever to give love and support to people who might not have enough of those things in their life. Hug your family close, show as much care as you can, and be present to the people important to you ❤️

If you're looking to give a meaningful gift, consider a recurring or one-time donation to One17 - ALL of our donations go to children who have been abused, under-served, and orphaned, as well as families looking to care for those children.

Reach out to learn more, or donate at:
https://www.one-17.org/donations/online

12/14/2024

The Lay Family 📙
We are Lexi and Andy. We live in Cincinnati, OH with our dog, W***y, who has as much personality as another human. We have close extended family on each side and love spending time with our nieces and nephews. We call City Church our church home and while Sunday mornings there are fruitful, we have grown so much spiritually from spending each Tuesday night over the last year or so with our church house group. Outside of church we have a circle of friends with families that we get together with often for dinners and fellowship.

We have always known that we wanted to be parents and began trying to conceive just about a year and a half into marriage. Months went by slowly, turning into years and we were still unable to conceive on our own or with a little bit of help from doctors. With that, we took some time to live as a family of two and did our best to receive what God was giving us and doing in our home.

This made it that much more surprising to the both of us when the idea of adoption slowly started to be put on our hearts as a real possibility. We have watched a few families welcome new family members through adoption. While it was a slow and steady decision to actually begin the process to pursue adoption, it was a confident decision.

The agency we are working with was not taking new applicants at the time we had initially reached out, however, just two months later that changed and before we knew it we were signed up for education courses. Our agency works with expectant mothers, expectant adoptive families, and adoptive families in the state of Ohio. We learned about the beautiful and painful parts of adoption, practical things to remember, and ultimately that we will never stop learning. We really want to provide a child with a home where they are loved, comforted, safe, laugh a lot, and feel they can be who God created them to be.

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We love the Lay family and are so proud to be able to have given them an adoption grant earlier in 2024! We're happy to report that their family has now been expanded through adoption ❤️