Angels Supports Children from all Cultures

African American and Latino Babies are disproportionately represented in foster care. African Americans make up 5% of San Diego’s population, yet African American children make up 24% of the children placed in Angels homes. Hispanic Babies make up 32% of those placed with Angels families.

Children born to the youngest mothers (17 and younger) are more likely to be from a racial or ethnic minority group than children born to older moms. At the very top of the adoption hierarchy are white, blue-eyed, blond haired girls. At the very bottom of the hierarchy are African American boys. Fifty-six percent of children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American.

American couples go to China and Romania to adopt babies, but there are plenty of American babies who need homes, and for many, permanent adoptive homes. Anyone interested in fostering and possibly adopting African American and Hispanic babies and toddlers are invited to learn more at the monthly orientation meetings. Angels respects the cultural factors that are a part of each child placed. Training classes teach the need for cultural sensitivity and suggestions are made to honor each child’s culture with art work, music and books that celebrate each child’s ethnicity.

How You Can Help

To learn about becoming a foster parent, contact us to find out when an orientation is being held in your neighborhood. We need you—and the babies need you. Consider being an Angels Foster Parent. If you cannot foster a child yourself, please tell others about this desperate need and donate to help Angels place babies. For more information, contact us today. San Diego area only please.

African American Outreach Brochure

Download our African American Outreach brochure in PFD (Adobe Acrobat) format. Full color, two sides, 355 KB. Click here to download the brochure. If the brochure opens in Acrobat, choose Save from the Acrobat menu to save it to your computer. Alternately, you can right-click on the download link and choose “Save As” or “Save Target As…”

Radio Interview with Angels CEO Cathy Richman

A half-hour interview on “The Soul of San Diego” with host Deborah Stevens. Cathy discusses the shortage of African American foster families. Listen here (MP3 format) Click to listen online, or if you prefer to save the MP3 file to your own computer, right-click, choose “Save,” then listen with your MP3 player.

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Angels African American Outreach Video

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