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Orange County honors foster families, highlights kinship placement success
Summary
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on June 4 proclaimed May as Foster Care Month, recognized resource families and cited a 47% kinship-placement rate and 2,139 children in care in February 2024, while urging residents to consider becoming resource families.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors opened its June 4 meeting by recognizing foster families and declaring May as Foster Care Month. Chair Wagner invited Children and Family Services staff and longtime foster parents Mark and Stephanie Parsons to the dais to accept the proclamation.
County deputy director Scott Burdick said the Social Services Agency prioritizes keeping children with kin and family when safe…
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