Heart of Stark: Honoring Pathway Caring for Children
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In partnership with The Repository, every Monday, Stark Community Foundation highlights positive happenings in our community. Here’s to Good News Mondays!
During National Foster Care Month, our community recognizes and appreciates Pathway Caring for Children and its mission to help children and families across Northeast Ohio realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption and counseling.
With the guidance of Pathway’s programming, 143 foster children have slept soundly in a new foster home, 13 children have found their forever home through adoption and 22 additional children are in the process of being adopted. Over 1,000 other children and families are also supported by its counseling and mental health services.
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ALPHARETTA – The number of older children in foster care continues to rise in Georgia, and FaithBridge Foster care is seeking additional foster parents to provide loving homes for these children.
As part of National Foster Care Month in the month of May, FaithBridge is working to raise awareness of the growing number of children ages 13 and older in foster care who need placement in homes where a parent or guardian can love and nurture them.
Data shows that in 2015, about 20 percent of children referred to FaithBridge Foster Care by the state Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) were children ages 13 and older. By 2020, that number had risen to 49 percent.