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Foster a Child with TLC
In Sonoma County alone, there are 50+ children each day who need homes, sometimes for a few days and sometimes forever. There are many ways you can welcome a child into your home.
Emergency foster care
– When child protective services determines that a child is not safe in their current home, an emergency foster home is needed.
Foster care – Children need a safe home while their biological family is given the opportunity to remedy the life circumstances that led to the child’s removal.
Concurrent placement –
The goal is for a child to have as few placements as possible, so a plan is made for the resource family to become the child’s forever family if reunification with biological family is not possible.
Adoption – Our Adoption Program helps place foster children from birth to 21 years of age in fost-adopt homes. TLC facilitates over 40 adoptions every year.
Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC) – Some children and teens qualify for extra support services to help them and their resource family to address challenging behaviors. ISFC families are provided more intensive case management and support from the TLC team as well as an increased monthly stipend.
Beginning with your one-on-one orientation, TLC will be there to guide you every step of the way as you build and grow your family. 707-528-3020, tlc4kids. org/foster-adoption
Lend-A-Hand Day Sebastopol
April 28 is when 11 local non-profits invite community volunteers
to help complete needed projects. The event is sponsored by Cittaslow Sebastopol and the City of Sebastopol.
Lend-A-Hand Day involves light construction, landscaping and cleaning activities. No major building skills are needed.
“If you’ve got some elbow
grease to donate, we’ve got
a wide variety of volunteer
opportunities for you” said
Tasha Beauchamp, Cittaslow Sebastopol Co-Chair.
“You can help paint trail signs, build little libraries, plant food and peace gardens and native flowers, wash windows, paint and clean indoor spaces, remove debris and trash, even sort and clean bike parts!”
Projects are in different locations and shifts vary in length from 2-6 hours.
Learn more and sign up to “lend a hand” at www.LendAHandSebastopol.org.
The deadline to sign up is Tuesday April 24th. For more information, contact info@lendahandsebastopol.org.
Hosted by the Gravenstein Lions Club, Sebastopol Regional Library, Rotary Club of Sebastopol, Daily Acts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Hallberg Butterfly Gardens, Hessel Community Guild, Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, West County Community Services, Sebastopol Interchurch Food Pantry and Community Bikes.
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