Children’s Bureau is giving individuals and couples from Santa Clarita the opportunity to consider fulfilling their dreams of being parents by becoming foster or adoptive parents.

The community is invited to discover if they have the willingness, ability and resources to take on the challenge of helping a child in need at the monthly informational meeting, set to take place Saturday.

“Los Angeles County’s foster care population exceeds 21,00 children with 500 foster children waiting to be connected to a family who will adopt,” stated a news release. “(Children’s Bureau) is in need of resource families for children in foster care while reunifying with birth families or to provide legal permanency by adoption.”

Children’s Bureau offers a comprehensive foster care and adoption program that brings families together for a lifetime, officials said.

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The agency’s “resource parents” protect and nurture children, meet children’s developmental needs and support children’s relationships with their birth families, doing all of this as a member of a professional team.

Children’s Bureau welcomes every foster and foster-adoptive parent regardless of race, age, religion, disability, marital status, ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Qualifying families receive training, family assessment, approval and support.

A Children’s Bureau resource parent advises potential resource parents “to come into it with an open mind and an open heart. Be prepared to care beyond anything you could have ever imagined.”

The informational meeting is scheduled to take palce from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the College of the Canyons Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University Center, Room 222, located at 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road in Santa Clarita.

To RSVP or for more information, call 661-208-4212 or email RFrecruitment@all4kids.org. An information packet or application may also be obtained by filling out a request form here.

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