Archive for November, 2005

A Home for the Holidays TV Special

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Mark Your Calendars! Dec. 21 on CBS… The Dave Thomas Foundation and the Children’s Action Network present the Seventh Annual A Home for the Holidays TV Special, all about the joys of adoption.
The Dave Thomas Foundation website says:
This year, on Wednesday, December 21, “A Home for the Holidays” will once again feature […]

Oakland Spotlights Children Waiting For Adoption

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Alameda County recently sponsored the 10th Annual Calling Out of Names of Waiting Children. The event, covered by CBS 5, called attention to all the local youth waiting for their own Forever Family. I’ll check with Alameda County to see about matches made this year. Last year, I spoke with a woman […]

New Foster Care Committee Meets

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

A few posts ago, I wrote about Karen Bass in our State Congress who is now heading up a new task force on foster care. Yesterday, the Chronicle printed a story about the very first meeting of the Select Committee on Foster Care. The article also lists contact information for all State […]

Exceptionally Qualified Couple Can’t Be Foster Parents, Guess Why.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

A lesbian couple - with extensive experience working with abused and neglected children - wants to parent a special-needs child in Missouri but the state’s Dept. of Social Services denies them.
My response (besides “What the…?!”) is:
“Hey Lisa and Dawn, please, move to California! We’d love to have you take care of one of […]

A Foster-Care Focus

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Cross your fingers! There’s someone in State Congress who really cares. Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista (Los Angeles County) has requested a Select Committee on Foster Care to make the 80,000 kids in foster care a state priority. The Chronicle’s editorial explains all about it, but the most important part of the whole editorial is the […]