Twelve local newspapers feature stories about children who are waiting for adoptive families, including:
- Alton Telegraph
- Belleville News-Democrat
- Breese Journal
- East St. Louis Monitor
- Edwardsville Intelligencer
- North County News
- O'Fallon Progress
- Republic-Times
- Sparta News-Plaindealer
- St. Louis Post Dispatch
- The Herald
- The St. Louis American