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GSBA supports adoptive families |
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| GSBA supports adoptive families | ||
| The Greater Seattle Business Association has become a corporate community partner with a $500 dollar donation to Families Like Ours, Inc.
"We are incredibly grateful that the GSBA and board are helping to support new prospective adoptive and foster parents. This donation will provide the refreshments for each of the six 30 hour pre-service trainings for all of our 2006 fiscal year." David Wing-Kovarik, executive director of Families Like Ours, Inc explains. "We are working hard to build community partnerships and our training programs tend to be the program that most partners like the best. Our four day pre-service classes tend to be filled weeks in advance with attendance averaging 26 individuals per training." For families wishing to adopt children from the foster care system, or become a foster care provider, the 30 hour training is required in order to obtain their approved license. This is an intense program training families about the children in care, how the system works, and the process of adoption and foster care. "Our training is accepted by all private placement agencies and state licensors," continues Wing-Kovarik. "What makes our classes unique is how the information is provided to the class. The majority of families that attend our classes are there for adoption, so there is a definite slant in that direction." Since August 2002 Families Like Ours, Inc has provided this training to over 500 individuals in the metro Puget Sound area. Families taking their training through Families Like Ours, Inc are provided a unique pre-service training, giving real world information directly from experienced parent trainers and guests. Community involvement is critical in helping the children in state care, at any given moment there are as many as 12,000 children in the Washington state foster care system. Right now there is a significant need for new foster parents. In King County alone there are less then 1200 licensed foster care families. Most LGBT families do not think anyone wants them as foster or adoptive parents, but that just isnÃt the case according to Families Like Ours. Nationally there are more than 600,000 children waiting in the foster care system, more then 200,000 of them are available for adoption and needing families. For the 20,000 kids that age out of the foster care system each year, that family never comes forward. Call 206-441-7602 or email support@familieslikeours.org to register for a class or talk with an adoption specialist. Families Like Ours, Inc. a nonprofit 501(c)3 adoption information exchange provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption and provides a network of safe placement agencies, ongoing training, support and resources. A Families Like Ours press release |
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