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Advocacy organizations, adoptees see room for additional improvements

Numbers from the last report card on the health and welfare of children in the state researchers call the foster care system "the most unstable in the country."

The Adoption Project, a nonprofit, launched to make Tennessee the most adoption-friendly state in the country and also change the system.

Human Rights Watch had the honor of screening the beautifully personal documentary, Daughter of a Lost Bird, at our New York and London film festivals, which shares the story of Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, who was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native American parentage.

In the late 1950s, the federal government established a program called the "Indian Adoption Project.” Throughout the nearly decade-long initiative, hundreds of native children were removed from their communities and placed with white families. The children were called “lost birds.” Lena Welker, now 66, was one of them.