Children in crisis need you
The purpose of foster care is to offer a safe, temporary, out-of-home placement for children who have been removed from their families due to abuse or neglect. There is such high demand right now — so many children in our area who need care — that we have been struggling to find foster homes for children of all ages. There are approximately 10,000 children in foster care and nearly 200 children who still need an adoptive family in Michigan. The tri-county area, which we serve, currently accounts for more than half of all foster care cases in the state.
Oakland Family Services alone receives 8-18 requests every single day to place children in foster homes. Often, requests we receive are from children in a shelter, because there continues to be no foster home for them, through Oakland Family Services or any other agency. Children as young as 2 have gone to a shelter, in one instance for as long as 2-3 weeks, as they wait for a foster home. We do not have enough foster homes to take these kids in, and care for them, at such a desperate, scary time in their lives.
We desperately need people who want to make a difference for these children — children who have experienced abuse or neglect in their homes — by becoming foster parents.
Have questions about foster care or adoption? Read our FAQs.
If you want to help children in our community, please call 248.858.7766 ext. 1236 or fill out the form below.
