Resource parents needed to foster or foster-adopt a child

There are approximately 64,000 children in foster care in California. Los Angeles County’s foster

care population exceeds 21,000 children with 500 foster children waiting to be connected to a family who will adopt.

The Children’s Bureau offers a comprehensive foster care and adoption program that brings families together. The agency is in need of resource families for children in foster care while reunifying with birth families or to provide legal permanency by adoption.

Children’s Bureau Resource Parents protect and nurture children, meet children’s developmental needs, support children’s relationships with their birth families and do all of this as a member of a professional team.

Children’s Bureau welcomes every resource parent regardless of, race, age, religion, disability, marital status, ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender identity

or expression. Qualifying families receive training, family assessment, approval and support.

A current Children’s Bureau family advises potential resource parents “to come into it with an open mind and an open heart. Be prepared to care beyond anything you could have ever imagined.”

Discover if you have the willingness, ability and resources to take on

the challenge of helping a child in need.

A monthly information meeting is being held Saturday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to Noon at College of the Canyons, Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University Center, Room 222, 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91355.

To RSVP or for more information, call 661208-4212 or email RFrecruitment@all4kids.org.

Since 1904, Children’s Bureau has been a nonprofit leader in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. More than 30,000 children and families are helped each year throughout Southern California with services that include school readiness, parenting classes, family resource centers, support groups, mental health counseling, foster care and adoption.