What? May is national foster care awareness month! Clermont County Foster Care will be participating in the first annual Walk Me Home fundraiser created by the National Foster Parent Association in honor of national foster care awareness month.
Where? Veterans Memorial Park in Union Township (on the corner of Glen Este Withamsville Rd and Clough Pike)
When? May 10th, 2008, check in begins at 9:00 AM; walking begins at 10:00. An awards ceremony and cookout will follow for all walkers as well as Clermont County foster parents.
How do I help? To participate in the walk, become a sponsor, or to volunteer call: 513-732-7675.
Each participant will get a T-shirt and other various goodies based on sponsorship funds raised. We need volunteers as well. Walkers must sign a medical waiver and raise $30. Children under 18 may walk, but also need a signed waiver.
Those seeking more information can go to http://www.walkmehome.org/site/PageServer. Those wishing to create a team, join a team, walk as an individual, or sponsor a walker can do so on the website as well. If you have questions about registering online, please call 732-7675.
Clermont County looking for more foster homes
By Mark Heyne of WVXU 3/10/2008 Faced with a rising number of kids needing care and a lack of foster homes, Clermont County officials have started a recruiting effort to get more people involved.
WVXU's Mark Heyne reports.
Meetings will be held between the hours of 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the following locations:
- Amelia Branch Library, May 19
- Bethel Branch Library, May 13
- Milford-Miami Township Branch Library, May 12
- Union Township Branch Library, May 20
For more information: (513) 732-7678
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We appreciate your interest in learning more about foster care and adoption with Clermont County Children’s Services. We are thankful for families who make this world a better place by opening their hearts and homes to children in need. Your help is desperately needed. As Clermont County continues to grow so do the social concerns including those related to drugs and alcohol, mental health, domestic violence and substandard housing.
In 2005, Clermont County Children’s Services received 1,424 new reports of abuse, neglect and maltreatment to children. At any given time, Clermont County Children’s Services has approximately 300 children in care. The vast majority of these children reside with foster parents.
Children who are at risk depend on caring foster families such as yours to provide a safe and nurturing home while their birth families work to resolve their issues of concern. Most children are able to reunite with their families. Unfortunately, some parents are not able to make the needed changes, and it then becomes the responsibility of the Department to secure a permanent home through adoption.
Many families in Clermont County choose to become certified to both foster and adopt with the understanding that if at all possible, children will reunify with their birth family. They also understand if reunification is not possible, it is in the child’s best interest to stay where they have bonded with their caregivers. As such, children unable to reunify with their birth family are oftentimes adopted by their foster parents.
Please explore this website to learn more about our program and the steps involved in becoming a foster/adoptive parent.