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Be a Part of National Adoption Month Attend a Children’s Bureau Info Meeting to Learn More about Foster-Adoption November is National Adoption Month, a celebration to bring awareness and attention to the need for permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. foster care system. Since 2000, Children’s Bureau has finalized more than 2,116 adoptions of vulnerable children in Southern California and continues to promote the need for resource parents through its “Be the Reason” recruitment campaign seen on outdoor ad space and online. Photo by
In Los Angeles County, the foster care
Samuel Zeller
population exceeds 21,000 children with 500 of those foster children, mainly siblings and
need,” said Amy Heilman, Children’s Bureau’s
Free 800-730-3933, email RFrecruitment@
older children, waiting for an adoptive
Director of Foster Care and Adoption.
all4kids.org , or visit https://www.all4kids.
family. While Children’s Bureau places more
org/program/foster-care/.
than 300 at-risk children in loving foster
Children’s Bureau now also offers a fee-
homes and finalizes 100 adoptions
for-service Domestic /Independent Adoption
annually, the need continues for more
Home Study Program for families seeking the
individuals and families to become resource
adoption of an infant whose birth mother is
Since 1904, Children’s Bureau
parents. Resource parents (foster and
making an adoption plan for her newborn
(www.all4kids.org) has been a nonprofit
adoptive) are people who are concerned
child. In addition to adoption home studies,
leader in protecting vulnerable children
about the well-being of children and their
Children’s Bureau provides approval of
through prevention, treatment and
families. Resource parents protect and
Interstate Compact packets, post placement
advocacy. The agency is unique in that it
nurture children, meet children’s
supervision visits and reports, and
focuses on three key areas for creating
developmental needs, support children’s
finalization services when the birth mother
impact: strengthening families and
relationships with their birth families and
delivers her baby in another state and the
communities, building peer capacity and
do all of this as a member of a professional
family / birth mother is working with an
transforming systems and communities.
team.
adoption agency.
“Children’s Bureau turns away at least 50
About Children’s Bureau:
Children’s Bureau helps 40,000 children and
calls a day because we don’t have enough
Children’s Bureau welcomes every
parents each year throughout
resource families to meet the demanding
individual regardless of race, age, religion,
Southern California with services that
disability, marital status, ethnic background,
include school readiness, parenting classes,
sexual orientation, gender identity or
family resource centers, support groups,
expression to become a resource for
mental health counseling, foster care and
children. Qualifying families receive training
foster-adoption and more.
and support throughout their journey.
Children’s Bureau is one of the largest investors in child abuse prevention in the
Source: https://www.all4kids.org/
For those interested, an information please
country and is developing a national
visit the Children’s Bureau’s at Magnolia
model to transform an entire at-risk
Place, 1910 Magnolia Avenue, Los Angeles,
community through its Magnolia Community
90007or, please call 213-342-0162 / Toll
Initiative. Trend Privé Magazine 101
