The annual Wendy’s® Frosty® 5K Run for Adoption is hosted by The Wendy’s Company. The 2022 virtual event will raise funds and awareness for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® and their signature program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® is a national, nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America's foster care systems. Through it's Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program, the foundation funds adoption professionals who use a model that has been proven to be up to 3x more effective at serving youth who have been waiting in foster care the longest.

Your participation in this year’s event will help the Foundation to find forever families for more children who are often overlooked. Learn more steps you can take to help at davethomasfoundation.org. Thank you for your support.

THANK YOU to all participants and supporters of the 2021 Frosty 5K!

SUCCESS STORY

Placed in foster care as infants, Elias and Niyah spent more than three years of their young lives in foster care. Thankfully, with help from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s caring supporters, the siblings were adopted by Kameca and Jamar through the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program.

“Our Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiter helped us beyond what words could ever repay, from supporting us through each transition to being present at our adoption finalization,” recalls Kameca.

Imagine what life might have been like for Elias and Niyah had they not been adopted. Like so many children waiting in foster care, the siblings could have been separated … bouncing from home to home … always worrying that they might have to move … again.

Today, the siblings are thriving in school and enjoy many activities. Niyah says she loves to teach her brother math, and Elias says he loves “being able to play with Niyah, every day!”

Through adoption, Elias and Niyah have grown socially, emotionally and physically, says Kameca. “My children are not biologically mine, but my heart doesn’t know the difference.”