Total of 30 children currently need placement
Six homes.
Department of Social Services Director Roberta Baldwin said that is the total number of active foster care facilities in all of Worcester County.
It’s also the biggest challenge the department faces as staff seek temporary placement for the 30 children who are currently in the local foster care system.
“It’s a national issue,” she said. “We struggled before the pandemic, but certainly the pandemic has impacted, and continues to impact, our ability to recruit and maintain a large pool of homes.”
While the goal of foster care is to place foster children in a permanent living arrangement, either with family members or adoptive parents, Baldwin said there is a great need for foster parents who can provide short-term care and support. She noted that more than half of children in Worcester County’s foster care system are currently living in other counties, away from their communities and the people they know.
“When children have to be separated from their families, there’s trauma that’s associated with that,” she explained. “So if we can keep children in their communities and in their neighborhoods, connected with teachers or other important figures in their lives, it helps to reduce t
Haaa! Your barking at the wrong county for that. Over there they’re either farmers, poor as dirt, or North end money bags.
What for ?? The ILLEGALS coming here ????
I believe every child should have a loving home to grow up in. However, many of these children have had very difficult situations early in life that families are not necessarily told about. God bless those trying to make a difference in the difficult situations these children come from.