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Lake County designates May 31, 2025, as Foster Parent Appreciation Day
Summary
The Lake County Board of Supervisors adopted a proclamation designating May 31, 2025, as Foster Parent Appreciation Day, recognizing more than 89 local children in foster care and urging residents to consider fostering and supporting resource families.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors adopted a proclamation designating May 31, 2025, as Foster Parent Appreciation Day, recognizing foster parents’ role in providing safe homes for children in the county and noting that “Lake County Foster Parents are caring for and nurturing more than 89 children and youth in foster care today.”
The proclamation, read by Supervisor Pysko and signed by EJ Crandall, chair of the Board of Supervisors, lists a series of “whereas” statements describing foster parents and kinship caregivers as providing “the love, safety, and stability” children need to recover from trauma and noting the county’s participation in National Foster Family Appreciation Day.
Sherry Dela Torre, program manager for the Resource Family Approval Unit, thanked the board and the county’s foster parents, saying, “We at the county can never find time or way to adequately appreciate and thank our foster parents parents for all that they do.” Rachel Dillman Parsons, Lake County’s social services director, called fostering “a commitment to making a difference in the lives of vulnerable children” and urged residents interested in becoming foster parents to contact the department.
Board members offered brief remarks of appreciation during the agenda item. One board member recalled past colleagues and local officials who have fostered children, saying foster parents often take on “a large task” to help what could be “the most vulnerable in our population.” During the public-comment portion following the proclamation, an attendee described a personal family example of adoption and long-term positive outcomes for foster children; that speaker was not named in the record.
The proclamation states the county’s intent to recognize foster parents and to promote family reunification and other permanency outcomes, including adoption and guardianship. The board recorded the proclamation as “passed and adopted this May 2025” in the meeting record; no roll-call vote or vote tally was provided during the reading.
The social services director closed by inviting community members who are interested in fostering to reach out to the county’s Social Services Department for information on becoming a resource family. The board took a group photograph after the item.
