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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,
a
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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