Important program update
The Family Resource and Training Center wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you to every one of you who has had such a caring heart for the youth we have served through this program for the past 10 years.
Please read the information below outlining how the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare plans to continue its diligent efforts to find permanency for all children in foster care in Idaho.
Please complete inquiries for any youth you are interested in as soon as possible so that we may process your inquiry before our website closes.
July 28, 2026
To Our Community Partners,
The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare has been proud to partner with Eastern Washington University (EWU) and other community partners to recruit adoptive families for Idaho’s children in foster care. Since Idaho’s Wednesday’s Child began over 25 years ago, the landscape of adoption from foster care has changed yet there continues to be a need for child-specific recruitment for youth most in-need of a permanent home. Over the years the department has reorganized how permanency cases are managed to address this need and to achieve timely permanency for children who cannot return home. These changes include permanency workers “teaming” earlier with family services workers and the addition of a Family Find team to help identify previously unknown relatives and connections for our youth in care. Meanwhile, advances in technology and social media have resulted in increased risks related to public profiles causing Idaho and other states to consider the long-term impact to the youth featured.
The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare is in a position to innovate practices for child-specific recruitment while demonstrating fiscal responsibility. With this in mind, the contract for Wednesday’s Child, Waiting Families and intensive recruitment services is ending effective 09/30/2026. These services will be provided through Youth Safety & Permanency team members beginning October 1, 2026. During this transition, the current website for Idaho Wednesday’s Child will be unavailable while an updated website is created for both our waiting children and waiting families. Idaho will continue to use the AdoptUSKids website during the transition to ensure ongoing efforts to achieve permanency for waiting children.
Thank you for your continued support and advocacy on behalf of Idaho’s children.
Thank you,
Jean M. Fisher
If your life has been feeling pretty boring, like it’s missing something important, adding Izabela to your family may just be the remedy to that! Bella, as she likes to be called, has an incredibly sweet and fun personality and is up for trying just about anything! She’s an outgoing girl who loves the outdoors and staying involved in activities, particularly when they involve amusement parks; swimming; biking; camping; and playing baseball and basketball. Bella loves just hanging out with friends and family goofing off and being silly. She’s a big-hearted girl who always tries to help others and can find the good in any situation. Aside from summer activities, Bella has a myriad of other interests as well, including drawing; watching Stranger Things and Avatar; reading mystery novels; learning to do new crafts, and playing the saxophone.
Bella loves going out for Italian and Chinese food and she has a talent for baking…especially fancy donuts! This driven teen has big dreams and goals and plans to someday attend culinary school then open her own bakery. If she was granted 3 wishes, Bella says she would ask for a service dog; a phone; and for a family full of love, respect, and kindness, who would tell her every day how much they love her and truly mean it. Bella would like to find her Forever Family in the North Idaho area, particularly Coeur d’alene, but is open to considering any family who thinks they may be a great fit for her. She would like both a Mom and a Dad and would love to be an only child, but is also open to the possibility of younger siblings in the home. Bella dreams of a Mom who will do things like help her get ready for dances, someone who will cheer her on when she is thriving, and also pick her up and help her to move forward when things get hard. Bella’s vision for a Dad would be someone who is calm and doesn’t yell, who is a good communicator and wants to spend time with her doing things like fixing cars or dirt bikes, and teaching her how to stand up for herself so that she can go on to have healthy adult relationships.
We are confidant that the perfect family for Bella has been out there all along, just waiting for this wonderful girl to come along! If you think that family is yours, we encourage you to inquire today to learn even more about Bella!
The Idaho Wednesday's Child Program prioritizes the safety and security of children, above all else. In an effort to protect the safety of the youth we serve, our process requires families to possess a current, approved adoption home study. Only families with a current home study can view youth's full profiles with videos and photos and submit inquiries, on the Secure Gallery Page.