Child/Family Foster Care Program For NRV

Our mission is to provide services to make a positive difference in the lives of children & families so that they can achieve their highest potential.

Description:
Foster Families Needed! In the New River Valley, there are 170 children in foster care but only 30 families within Department of Social Services to provide a loving home. When children come into foster care, the Department of Social Services hopes to place them in their local community. Unfortunately, there are not enough families in our area to accomplish our goal. Many children are uprooted from their known environment and placed in a different locality causing the child to experience more of a sense of loss than they have experienced already.

Children need a home where they can be nurtured with care and love. Unfortunately, not every child gets the proper care he or she needs. Due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a family death in a child’s home, courts sometimes decide that children must be temporarily separated from families. These children come from all cultural and economic backgrounds and may be from our own neighborhoods and communities. We are looking for people who can make a commitment to these children and their families. Please consider helping us by becoming a foster parent.

If you are not able to foster children at this point in your life, you could consider helping us recruit families. Flyers are constantly being hung in churches, libraries, gas stations, grocery stores, hair salons, etc. However, we need help displaying the flyers throughout the NRV. Another opportunity with Social Services would be gathering donated suitcases or duffel bags or creating hygiene bags for when children are removed from their parents. The hygiene bags are provided to teens when they enter foster care, and it would be helpful to have items such as hairbrushes, shampoo, fragrant soaps/lotions, and facial soap/products. We have many opportunities for you to serve children and families in our community. If you want to help a vulnerable child by volunteering with our program, please call.

Contact people:

Lucy Brizendine, Foster & Adoptive Parent Recruiter, (phone), (email) Regina Clark, Social Work Assistant, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (540) 382-6945

Address:

210 South Pepper Street #B Christiansburg, VA 24073 (See a map)

Web Site: None specified

Directions:

From I-81 take exit 114. Head towards the town of Christiansburg. Take West Main Street into Christiansburg for about 1 mile then take a right onto Pepper Street before the stoplight. Go through one stop sign.. . . (more)

Last updated on November 6, 2009