Last Update: September 7th, 2011
Feet on the Street is a joint campaign to raise awareness of the need for foster and adoptive homes in our own communities. The Department of Human Services and the partner non-profit agencies in Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties that provide foster care and adoption services are promoting and planning this campaign and are asking for community members to assist in distributing informational brochures to raise foster care awareness in their own neighborhoods between September 1, 2011 and September 24, 2011. This campaign is called "Feet on the Street for Children."
A copy of the informational brochure can be found HERE so that individuals can print off and distribute. Interested parties can also contact (248)858-7766 ext. 236 or vial email at mcallaghan@ofsfamily.org to request a certain number of brochures to be distributed. Both adults and children can participate in spreading the word!
This brochure contains information that discusses that there is a shortage of foster and adoptive homes to meet the needs of children in our communities. There are approximately six hundred children who have been removed from Oakland County homes this year and only one third of them have been able to be placed in a foster or adoptive home in Oakland County because of the shortages of these safe and secure homes. It provides information regarding how someone can become a foster or adoptive parent as well as other ways that people can get involved in offering support to families in the foster care system without fostering or adopting children.
The brochure also invites people in the community to attend a walk at 11 AM on September 24, 2011 at Wayne County Community College on the last day of the Feet on the Street...campaign. The partner agencies and some of their foster parents and adoptive parents will also be participating. We are hoping to get media coverage throughout the month of September as well as at the walk to show how the three counties are coming together to raise awareness about this vulnerable population.
Please contact Megan or have others contact her directly for brochures or with any questions at (248)858-7766 ext. 236 regarding the Feet on the Street for Children campaign.
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