Supervisor Dave Roberts: County Looking for “Exceptional” Parents

Every year, nearly 400 children are placed in adoptive homes each year in San Diego County.  Yet at any given time, as many as 45 hard-to-place children stay in foster care even though they are eligible for adoption into permanent homes.

That’s why Supervisor Dave Roberts, in collaboration with Chairman Greg Cox, launched The Exceptional Families Adoption Campaign this week to recruit families to adopt hard-to-place kids.

“We are renewing our commitment to our foster children to do everything we can to find them loving, permanent homes,” said Roberts, the adoptive parent of five children from the county. “We are going to be aggressive not only to increase public awareness, but in our efforts to recruit new adoptive parents.”

Some children can be hard to place because of their age, behavioral, developmental, psychological, or medical disabilities, or a combination of these factors. In some cases, siblings don’t want to separate.

The Exceptional Families Adoption Campaign will reach out to organizations that support less-traditional adoptive families. Information about adoption can be found by dialing 2-1-1.

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