OVERVIEW
Whether you are a foster parent or an adoptive parent, opening your heart and home to a child
is a wonderful and life-changing experience for parent and child alike.
In 2007-2008, there were 2,797 children in foster care every month, on average, in Orange County. Most foster children need temporary foster homes until they are eventually able to return to their birth families; others, however, need permanent homes through adoption.
Foster parents provide on-going care and nurturing for children that have been removed from their families because of abuse or neglect. Foster parents also work with the children’s birth parents and/or relatives to help families reunify.
Foster parents become active members of teams dedicated to obtaining the best possible outcome for each child. Foster parents might also assist the team in developing permanent plans for children in situations where safe reunification is not possible.
Adoptive parents provide new families for children who cannot be safely returned to their birth families. An adoptive parent makes a lifetime commitment to a child.
Foster Means Families Helping Families
The Need, The Solution Flyer- English | Spanish
Foster Care poster (here)
OUR PARTNERS
Orange County Social Services Agency’s mission is to partner with families to ensure their children live in a
safe, nurturing, and permanent home.
888-871-5437 | www.oc4kids.com
Vision: A strong family for every child.
Mission: Olive Crest is dedicated to Preventing chlid abuse, to Treating and Educating
at-risk children and to Preserving the family.. “One Life at a Time.”
1800-550-CHILD | www.olivecrest.org