30 Days to Family for Foster Kids
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There are currently 102 children who have no known potential adoptive resource right here in the 13 counties that CMFCAA serves in MidMissouri. In other words, despite their best efforts, the foster care system could not identify or find a forever family for these children.
These are the kids being placed in group homes or residential facilities because we couldn’t find them a family. Foster children who reach the age of 9 and have not found a forever family are highly likely to live the rest of their childhood in a residential facility until they "age out" of the system.
This is where CMFCAA planned to step in and launch the 30 Days to Family and Extreme Recruitment programs. Each program is designed and proven to provide quick and successful outcomes by exploring and expanding more kinship or community ties a child may have until their forever family is found. Essentially, it’s private investigation set on fire - and foster children are on average placed in a permanent home within 12-22 weeks.
These two program were state-funded and approved for the 2016-2017 fiscal year by Governor Jay Nixon, but in his withholdings he restricted $400,000 in increased funds to adoption services, more than $300,000 of which CMFCCA was to receive to implement 30 Days to Family and Extreme Recruitment.
We can calculate the cost of leaving our 102 children in our 13-county service area in group and residential care. It will cost the State of Missouri approximately $951,000 per year to provide housing, clothing, food, education, etc. just to the 102 children in our service area alone. What is not included in this number is the untold cost on our community and the price our children pay – which is to not have a family – somewhere to dig your roots in to and have an identity – somewhere to be loved.
CMFCAA is dedicated to launching these programs in partnership with you so that together we can find permanent, forever families, for our foster children.
These are the kids being placed in group homes or residential facilities because we couldn’t find them a family. Foster children who reach the age of 9 and have not found a forever family are highly likely to live the rest of their childhood in a residential facility until they "age out" of the system.
This is where CMFCAA planned to step in and launch the 30 Days to Family and Extreme Recruitment programs. Each program is designed and proven to provide quick and successful outcomes by exploring and expanding more kinship or community ties a child may have until their forever family is found. Essentially, it’s private investigation set on fire - and foster children are on average placed in a permanent home within 12-22 weeks.
These two program were state-funded and approved for the 2016-2017 fiscal year by Governor Jay Nixon, but in his withholdings he restricted $400,000 in increased funds to adoption services, more than $300,000 of which CMFCCA was to receive to implement 30 Days to Family and Extreme Recruitment.
We can calculate the cost of leaving our 102 children in our 13-county service area in group and residential care. It will cost the State of Missouri approximately $951,000 per year to provide housing, clothing, food, education, etc. just to the 102 children in our service area alone. What is not included in this number is the untold cost on our community and the price our children pay – which is to not have a family – somewhere to dig your roots in to and have an identity – somewhere to be loved.
CMFCAA is dedicated to launching these programs in partnership with you so that together we can find permanent, forever families, for our foster children.
Organizer
DeAnna Alonso
Organizer
Jefferson City, MO
