RAISE A CHILD INCORPORATED
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Mission Statement
Building loving families for foster children™.
About This Cause
We build families by finding parents who will foster and adopt. A leader in the recruitment and support of LGBT and all prospective parents interested in building families through fostering and adopting to meet the needs of the 425,000+ children currently in the foster care system. We have developed a system to find — and then support — people who are interested in becoming foster/adoptive parents. As a result, RaiseAChild outperforms the national standard by advancing 23% of prospective foster and adoptive parents from inquiry to certification. For more information, please visit our About Us page at www.raiseachild.org. Background: Los Angeles County has been experiencing a foster care crisis due to a severe shortage of foster homes. A May 2020 report shows that there are more than 17,900 foster children in out-of-home care. The shortage of homes adds to the trauma of the County’s foster youth as they are often moved between various forms of housing. The lack of a loving and permanent home for foster youth negatively impacts their ability to function as independent adults upon exit from the child welfare system. According to PEW Charitable Trusts, young people in foster care face bleak futures if they remain in and ultimately age out of the system: 75% will not graduate from high school or earn a GED: more than 50% will experience homelessness; and nearly 30% will become incarcerated. RaiseAChild is expanding its operations to northern California and to other states to address the need for more LGBTQ+ supportive and all diverse families wishing to Let Love Define Family™. Join us.