May is National Foster Care Month
There are currently 510,000 children in the United States foster care system. In addition, there are an estimated 12 million alumni of foster care in the U.S. from all walks of life.
No matter their age, all youth in foster care need a meaningful connection to a caring adult who becomes a supportive and lasting presence in their lives. Without families or stable relationships, too many of these formerly abused and neglected children and teens will face life’s challenges all alone.
Visit the National Foster Care Month website at fostercaremonth.org, which features:
• Information about foster care
• History of National Foster Care Month
• Success stories
• Ways to get involved
• Events and promotions
For additional information and other foster care resources, visit adoptuskids.org.
Friday, May 2, 2008
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4 comments:
Are there limits to how many children you can have in your home? We have 5 children already, but would love to adopt another child. I believe in the state of FL you can only have a total of 5 for foster care, but what about adoption?
Thank you for the link. I didn't know there was a website dedicated to Foster Care month. I just knew of the events in my area.
A.C.
I dont know about FL but in PA I dont think there is a limit on the number of children you can adopt. I know of several families that have very large groups of children in their homes. I would think it would depend on whether the children were foster care or pre-adoptive children. It is my understanding that there is a difference between the two. PA has a limit of 6 in foster care, and that needs to include your own children. It can be a combination of both, but not over six. I think the red tape comes in when you are combining adopted/bio children then take in foster children, not preadoptive children. I believe PA has a system by which one can apply for an exception or waiver, such as keeping a sib group together.
If you find out the info for FL could you share it on the blog? I think that type of info can be very useful to all of us who are in this process, whether from our own state or out of state.
We Would love to adopt but......In the last two weeks I have contacted about fifteen different agency's regarding adopting three more girls. Sadly only about three contacted me back. Some of the agency's I even contacted twice. I clicked on the interested in this child link , filled out forms, etc. We are a licensed foster home with a current homestudy, I have a large home and make a good living and we are succesfull foster parents. If this is National Foster Care Month, why are none of these agencys/workers interested in getting their kids adopted???
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