September 16, 2005
Meeting Set to Find New Foster, Adoptive Parents
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) will hold a community meeting Monday, Sept. 26, to provide information to Billings-area residents who may be interested in becoming a foster or adoptive parent.
"We're in desperate need of foster and adoptive parents," said Larry Burns, with the Child and Family Services Division of DPHHS. "Due to drugs, child abuse and neglect, the department is placing more and more children into foster care. It's becoming more and more difficult to find families who can help these children."
The meeting will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. in the second floor conference room of the Child and Family Services Office, 2525 Fourth Avenue, in Billings. Staff from community foster care programs will be available to talk about the need for foster and adoptive parents, the requirements to become one, and the satisfaction of being one.
"Providing love, comfort, and guidance to children who have been removed from their homes can be so rewarding," Burns said. "These children desperately need someone to be there for them."
To learn more about foster and adoption programs, contact the Child and Family Services Division at 657-3120.
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