Topic > Adopt More Teens Campaign - 1146

I chose to make flyers for the nonprofit Youth Villages because I wanted to encourage adults to adopt older teens before they age out of the foster care system with the help of foster care and adopted adolescents. The teenagers will provide future adoptive parents with a positive vision of how teenagers can easily get used to a new environment. Many prospective adoptive parents are discouraged from adopting teenagers because they have been informed of the complicated ordeals that many foster teenagers experience during the transition from an ordinary life to a life in foster care. To get a large percentage of undergraduate students to attend this informational meeting, flyers will be hung in Hodges Library and the Provost's Office, located in the Andy Holt Tower. To convince a large percentage of people in their thirties and forties to attend the information meeting, posters will be hung in workplaces that collaborate with various family services, bars and YMCAs. I chose the YMCA because a lot of older people go there to exercise, but a lot of community service with foster teens also takes place there. The yellow, purple and brown poster's primary audience is college students who have aged out of the foster care system or have been adopted. The red, brown and cream poster's primary audience is adults between the ages of 30 and 40. To appeal to both audiences, I used an appeal to pathos. On both posters I used images of families who have adopted many different teenagers into their family or a group of different teenagers and young adults to express the feeling of accepting teenagers or young adults regardless of ethnic background. The one thing I chose to emphasize in the college student poster is free food. Free food will be... middle of paper... that they adopt older children. From personal experience, speaking at one of these meetings, I can say that it is absolutely not easy to talk to older adults about foster care and adoption. What I can say I learned from the meeting is that a positive story can change the lives of many other teenagers who want a stable home and someone they can call a parent. I wanted to create these posters because it is important to me to share with the community that adopting older children is a blessing in disguise. Creating this poster helped me contribute to a non-profit organization without donating money. This project also helped me understand that the strategy of which movement and rhetoric to use for two different audiences will impact the poster's success in convincing people to come out and change opinions about foster care teens who want to be adopted..