Citizens must support foster care children

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As I read the article about the Children’s Administration and the foster care system in Washington State, I had to ask two things.

First, where is the praise for the vast majority of foster parents who step up with compassion and commitment and care for our community’s children who need support?

Second, where is the community’s commitment to stand beside the Children’s Administration and share the responsibility? Our state agencies are not failing, we are failing.

We are the foster homes, we are the neighbors, we are the ones who can help when families are overtaxed and at their wits end, even if just by saying “thank you.”

There will never be enough money to fix a foster care system that we have left solely responsible for our most vulnerable children.

There will never be enough funding for state workers, but there are enough resources in Whatcom County’s citizens, family, kin and leaders who can step along side our foster families and ask, “How can I help?”

Any one who wants to help support our community’s foster parents can call the Whatcom Family & Community Network at 738-1196.

Only the whole community, together, can make children safe.

Geof Morgan
Bellingham

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