What’s Wrong with the Status Quo?
More often then you can imagine, children are abused or neglected by the adults who are responsible for their care. Once a child is removed and in protective custody, he will likely be placed in traditional foster care. These are county-licensed homes where a child is cared for in a family setting, attends school, and has regular visits with his family. Foster parents are paid a stipend to care for the child. This is intended to cover the basic living expenses of food, clothing, transportation and shelter.
Due to the shortage of available families, children are often placed into overcrowded temporary homes never having the opportunity to bond with a caregiver.
These children do not receive the love and attention that all infants and toddlers need and deserve.
Each County foster family can care for up to six children at a time as long as they meet licensing requirements that regulate square footage and number of bedrooms. County foster parents undergo basic training and home inspection.
Typical county social workers carry 45-60 children on their caseload. These workers, even when doing their best, cannot commit to more than a few minutes a week to focus on each child.
How is Angels Different?
At Angels we work hard to recruit families who consider it an honor to care for a child. After careful screening our families complete in-depth training to become supportive, prepared and loving foster parents. Once the family completes training and a beautiful child comes into their home, that child will stay until he is reunited with his birth family or is adopted.
By keeping him in one home, he will bond with those foster parents and receive the love and nurturing he deserves; avoiding the development of Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Angels social workers carry a maximum of 15 children on their caseload. This allows them to visit each child every week as well as provide 24-7 support to the foster parents.
