CHOSEN CARE INC
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Mission Statement
Chosen supports foster and adoptive families and helps children heal from trauma. We do this through parent education, mentoring services, outreach and adoption assistance. Chosen has been serving the greater San Antonio area since 2009.
About This Cause
Chosen's mission is to support permanent, safe, and loving homes for foster and orphaned children through adoption assistance, parent education mentoring, and outreach. In addition to providing assistance for adoption costs, parent education and outreach, Chosen uses best-in-class services to help the emotional needs of children who have been abused, neglected and/or abandoned with a mentoring program for their parents. The emotional needs of vulnerable children are varied and significant, as every child in the position of being fostered or adopted has experienced trauma. This trauma occurred before birth, during birth, or after the point of being removed from biological parents. Psychological research has provided significant, conclusive evidence that even babies adopted by loving parents at birth have been traumatized neurologically. The level of trauma experienced increases exponentially in foster children who have been abused or neglected, as well as in orphaned children who have lived in institutional settings. Traumatized children exhibit behaviors that, at first glance, look like "bad behaviors." Experts explain that these externalizing behaviors are what the children do to cope with the horror they have experienced in their short lives. Without the proper tools for healing, the behaviors can lead to mental illness and leave children to grow into adults with life-long struggles. Many loving adults have stepped forward to help this population of children through opening their homes to them and wanting to become their parents in either a foster or adoptive capacity. Unfortunately, child placing agencies are ill-equipped to support people who are attempting to parent traumatized children, as their goal is to get vulnerable children placed in homes. Once the placement is complete, the support is minimal. As a result, there is a gap in services for foster and adoptive parents. This gap in services leaves parents woefully unprepared, frustrated, and often ready to disrupt the foster placement or dissolve the adoption.