Adoption, Foster and relative Care in California. Welcome to Kinship Center -
 

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and welcome to Kinship Center.

 

Thank you for visiting our agency. We exist because we believe "every child deserves a family." Whether you are a family hoping to provide a home for a child; a foster parent, an adoptive parent; adopted person or birth parent; a relative caregiver; a social worker seeking a family for a child,
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policymaker, a concerned member of our community seeking to provide volunteer services or financial support, or if you are interested in our workshops and education institute, we hope that you will find the information you need.

 

There is a challenge before us;

Child welfare remains one of the most critical issues facing America and the world as we begin the 21st Century. Though a great deal of progress has been made in the effort to assist disadvantaged children during the past twenty years, there are currently over 600,000 foster children in the United States. In California, there are 92,000 foster children, or over 16% of all foster children in the United States.

Foster children are children who do not now have a permanent family. The majority of these children are dependents of the local juvenile courts. The birth parents of these children are not able to fulfill their responsibility to raise them safely to adulthood. Foster children typically suffer forms of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. Some have physical scars; all have emotional scars. Without a loving family to nurture them, many of these children never truly find their way in life.

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