Dear Friend of Angels,
Here's to wishing you and yours a very Happy and Safe Holiday Season!
In November, we found extraordinary families for 6 at-risk infants and toddlers. Unfortunately, we had to turn away 3 infants and toddlers because we did not have available Angels homes.
For the past 15 years, Angels Foster Family Network has lead the way in creating and delivering innovative therapeutic programs focused on assisting newborn babies and children through age five. Our programs successfully help these children catch up and greatly overcome physical, mental and emotional delays brought on by abuse and neglect. Our ability to recruit and retain superior foster families, coupled with our focus on placement permanency affords each foster child in our care much needed stability and is the singular focus of each foster family. Foster children outside of our care commonly bounce between foster homes sometimes living in over a dozen places by age three or living in a home with as many as six other foster children of similar age. Our ability to provide foster children a loving, safe, nurturing and enriching home environment is unrivaled elsewhere in the foster care system.
As the Interim Executive Director, I am deeply honored to continue and expand on the success of those leaders who have come before me. This past year nearly 1,000 infants and toddlers through no fault of their own entered the foster care system in San Diego County. We were able to help just over 100 of these fragile children while unfortunately turning away many others in need.
As this year comes to a close, I need your help in making sure we don't have to turn away any infant or toddler in need of a loving, caring foster home.
You can help us the most by:
- Helping us find wonderful families all across San Diego County who will consider opening their homes and hearts to a foster child in need.
- Sharing our story of success with your friends, family and colleagues in person, at the office and via social media on Facebook and LinkedIn.
- By making a financial contribution in support of the work we do in healing these fragile children from the pain of abuse and neglect.
Thank you all for your continued support of Angels and I look forward to communicating with you regularly about our ongoing needs and the continued success of our efforts.
Happy Holidays!
Jeff Wiemann
Interim Executive Director
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