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VIDEO: How one couple helps foster siblings stay together Staci said she and Keith couldn’t imagined their lives without the kids.

Circle of Care CEO, Keith Howard, and VP of Development, Sarah Steffes, accept the 2019 Anne Roberts’ People’s Choice Award for Organization.

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In courtrooms all across Oklahoma and the United States, a special event has been occurring this month: adoption. People are gathering, bringing gifts and taking pictures. Families are standing before the judge and making a commitment to not only give a child their name, but to raise, protect, nurture and love that child. The judge grants the adoption and people cheer, hug, cry and celebrate.

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