CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION
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Mission Statement
Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association creates stability and permanence for abused and neglected children by empowering and advocating for foster and adoptive families in Central Missouri.
About This Cause
Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association is a not for profit agency that educates, supports, and advocates for foster and adoptive children, youth and families in central Missouri by offering services and partnering with community and governmental agencies to develop healthy and self-sufficient individuals and families. Founded in 2007 by a former foster youth, foster parents, and adoptive parents, the CMFCAA is a community service organization that provides for the needs of foster, adoptive, kinship, and guardianship youth and families. What began as a small support group has grown into a multifaceted organization that provides direct support, education, services and advocacy to foster and adoptive families in a 13 county central Missouri region. Currently, we are assisting over 640 foster families, over 1400 foster children, over 400 adopted children in our service area. Our goal is to be a support to the families, children and youth in this area, and we work tirelessly to provide much needed services to them. In 2013, CMFCAA was recognized by the State of Missouri as the Central Missouri Adoption Resource Center in partnership with the Missouri Department of Social Services and LINC. Did you know? • There are over 13,050 children in Missouri foster care • At the beginning of 2015 there were 651 licensed foster homes • Only 48% of children who enter care are expected to be successfully reunited with their biological family • The average age of foster children is 9 years old • The average time in foster care before reunification or another form of permanency is 28 months • 14% of foster children without permanent family become homeless adults • 18-26% of foster children without permanent family end up in the prison system Counties served Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Moniteau, Cole, Osage, Morgan, Miller, Maries, Camden, Laclede, Pulaski, Phelps