The 25th anniversary edition will feature a variety of performances
CBS presents the 25th Annual A Home for the Holidays, an entertainment special featuring uplifting stories of adoption from foster care, Friday, December 22nd from 8-9 pm ET/PT on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs. Performances by extraordinary artists including Lauren Daigle, Gavin DeGraw, David Foster & Katharine McPhee, Pentatonix, and CeCe Winans will enhance the inspirational adoption stories of several American families. McPhee also serves as host for the evening.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the special which raises awareness of this important social issue. For the last quarter century, the award-winning special has shined a light on the thousands of American children in foster care and has inspired thousands of adoptions, moving these children into loving forever families.
Currently, there are close to 400,000 children in foster care in the US, more than a quarter of whom are hoping for a forever home. These children lead difficult lives – only half graduate from high school, five percent graduate college and twenty percent become homeless soon after they age out of the system. The child welfare system is sometimes described as the “highway to homelessness,” as nationwide fifty percent of the homeless population was once in foster care. Youth in foster care are resilient and have great potential to beat these odds. Given a home and a chance, these children can lead fulfilling, even extraordinary lives.
This year, in honor of the silver anniversary, the show revisits some of the amazing families featured in years past.
