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September 1, 2011

CPS Foster Family Recruitment Fair TODAY



Foster Family Recruitment Event Hosted by CPS
Thursday, September 1 from 4-7 pm

The For the City Center
500 E. St. Johns Avenue
Austin, Texas 78752

There are many children in need of foster homes. The children needing foster homes through Child Protective Services are: 
  • Children and youth who have been abused, neglected, and/or abandoned.
  • Children and youth ranging in age from 0-22 years of all ethnic, cultural, and racial backgrounds. 
  • Sibling groups who need to be place in the same foster or adoptive home, or who are not placed together but need to have regular contact with each other.
  • Children and youth with disabilities and special needs, including, but not limited to psychological, medical, and physical diagnoses.
What is Foster Care?
Being a foster parent means temporarily caring for and nurturing many children over time. It also means working as a partner, both with the agency and birth parents, in order to help reunify a child with their biological family after the issues which caused the child to be placed into foster care are resolved. 

Foster Care Information Sessions will be conducted at 4:30 and 6:00. Each session will be about 40 minutes. All of the attending foster care agencies will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about the steps to become a foster parent. No reservations needed, just come and join us! 
The following agencies will be represented:
 
CPS
The Settlement Home
Pathways 
Texas Mentor
Starry
Marywood
Caring Family Network

Hope for Tomorrow 
Benchmark

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