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San Mateo County agency and local resource parents urge more foster families to keep children close to home
Summary
Claire Cunningham of the Human Services Agency of San Mateo County said a modest increase in resource (foster) families would help keep youth near their schools and relatives; local resource parents described nearly a decade of caregiving and community support available to new families.
Claire Cunningham, director of the Human Services Agency of San Mateo County, urged more residents to consider becoming resource (foster) families, saying a relatively small increase in local caregivers would meaningfully improve placement options for children who cannot safely remain at home.
"If we could get 10 resource families in our system today, that would make a huge difference," Cunningham said, describing the agency's effort to place youth in loving, stable homes while they work toward reunification with parents or seek permanent placement.
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