Homes For Foster Children Needed In Marin County

MARIN COUNTY, CA – The Marin County Recruitment Collaborative is looking for local homes to foster children in foster care, according to county officials.

Marin County averages 80 children in foster care. Nearly two dozen are placed in homes outside of the county – even several hundred miles away.

The collaborative, which includes specialists from Marin County Health and Human Services, is hoping to bring more children in foster care back to their own communities.

Currently, there are 23 young people living outside of Marin and 19 of them are are girls, according to child welfare worker Leslie Fields.

"They all need and deserve a safe, loving, and consistent place to live where they can thrive and mature," Fields said. "Our goal is to keep children in their home community as well as keep siblings together. ... What we need is a larger, more diverse pool of resource family homes."

People interested in providing temporary care or signing up to be an adoptive family can attend an orientation held monthly at the Marin Health and Wellness Campus in San Rafael. The next orientation will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the campus at 3250 Kerner Blvd. in Room 107.

For more information and to see future orientation dates, visit fosterourfuturemarin.org or call 415-473-2200. People interested in fostering must complete the Resource Family Approval process.

Bay City News and Kristina Houck/Patch contributed to this report.

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