THE NEED
Yes, preventive measures and services are helping famlilies stay together!
Yes, children are being reunified with healed families.
Yes, services are being provided to help prepare youth for aging out!
"Then", you ask, "why is the need still so great?"
For the same reason you need to minister to people. We're all human, all able to make mistakes and sins of our own. The opoid and other drug use continues to escalate and Drug Abuse (Parent) is the primary reason children come into care, followed by Domestic Violence, and Physical Abuse. (You can view full statistics here)
Quite simply, the number of children entering "out-of-home care" each month necessitates the need for more foster parents.
Yes, children are being reunified with healed families.
Yes, services are being provided to help prepare youth for aging out!
"Then", you ask, "why is the need still so great?"
For the same reason you need to minister to people. We're all human, all able to make mistakes and sins of our own. The opoid and other drug use continues to escalate and Drug Abuse (Parent) is the primary reason children come into care, followed by Domestic Violence, and Physical Abuse. (You can view full statistics here)
Quite simply, the number of children entering "out-of-home care" each month necessitates the need for more foster parents.
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# of Removals
74 87 66 49 45 45 87 60 87 91 84 65 59 899 |
Month
January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 |
Rethinking foster care: Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014
Thirty percent of the homeless in America and some 25 percent of those in prison were once in foster care.
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