Hello Friends,
Exciting things are happening at Angels!
We have another large group of excellent parents about to graduate from training, and not a moment too soon. Our families have been chock full of babies, and as soon as an opening appears, it is filled. We hope to someday achieve our goal of no child turned away, but until then we are grateful for every home filled with love.
In order to increase our outreach and visibility in the San Diego community, Angels is about to embark on our very first targeted media campaign. With the help of radio, TV, and print advertising we hope to make Angels a household name and draw many more families with open hearts and nurturing to give.
A HUGE Thank You to the Rancho Santa Fe Women's Fund and the Issa Family Foundation for their generous grants that provided the funds to launch this aggressive outreach campaign.
Meanwhile, we know we must keep working to transform foster care in the face of difficult times. Just this week we received a call about a large, traumatized sibling set, all under the age of five. Each had been in no less than four different homes since January, when they entered care following serious domestic violence.
Our Angels families will help these little ones heal by doing what they do best: providing "repair care" with consistent love, attention and the kind of parenting all children so richly deserve. If only we'd been called first.
With Hope,
Rachel Zahn
Assistant Director