Skate party to raise adoption awareness:
Children Services to host event
Marion Star, November 5, 2006.
MARION -- In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, Marion County Children Services is working to raise awareness of foster children who are waiting for permanent, loving families.
Children Services will host a free skating party 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday at Rollerama Skate Center, located behind Mallard Square at 1683 Marion-Mount Gilead Road.
This "Adoption Month Celebration" is for all families who have adopted and would-be parents who are considering adopting a child. Local foster families are also invited to attend.
Free admission, skate rental, pizza and drinks will be provided, and there will be door prizes, special skates, and recognition of families who have adopted.
Information on children who need adoptive homes, both here in Marion and from surrounding counties, will be available as well.
Today, there are more than 500,000 foster care children in the United States and 118,000 of them are available for adoption. That figure includes more than 3,000 children in Ohio, and five right here in Marion County.
"While we celebrate all forms of adoption as a wonderful way to create or extend families, we use Adoption Awareness Month to draw attention to a very special group of children who desperately need families," stated Children Services' Executive Director F. Eric Bush in a press release.
"Children in foster care who need adoptive homes are truly America's waiting children. They needa forever family to call their own."
"In our community, there are five children waiting for adoptive homes," Bush added. "We believe that every child deserves a permanent home and encourage families to open their hearts to the idea of foster care adoption."
Marion County Children Services is a nationally accredited child protective services agency that leads the community in the prevention, identification and protection of abused and neglected children.
Children Services coordinates intervention and support services in partnership with families andother community resources, working together to assure that Marion County children are safe and have permanent and stable homes.
For more information on adopting a waiting child in Marion County, call Marion County Children Services at 740-389-2317 or visit online at www.marionkids.com
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