We have, along with other Children's Home Society foster care and adoption sites, been receiving many inquiries about foster care and adoption over recent months. At our site, with the addition of seeking "host homes" for our runaway and homeless youth programs, we feel we provide inquirying families with many options of ways they could help children and assist with permanency and lifelong connections. Though we didn't have anyone attend the 5 pm information session, a woman came in earlier in the day to inquire and received a good orientation by Carna. We also had an inquiry by phone today. The RHY Basic Center staff sat in on this first Information Session (for them) and there was some good intra-staff brainstorming about outreach and recruitment strategies. The next session is scheduled for a Saturday, May 16th in the morning, during May's National Foster Care Month. Stay tuned for updates about this special event at the Parkersburg site.
Carna, our adoption and foster care, Masters level social worker, is working hard in her multiple duties, "learning the ropes" of adoption work, as well as conducting home studies, PRIDE trainings and working with the 11 foster homes we now have on board. Kim has been on board as the foster care case manager for several months, and handles most of the case work for the children in care.
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