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Make Becoming a Foster Parent Your New Year’s Resolution
Help Lucas County Children By Becoming A Licensed
Foster/Adoptive Parent.
Special to The Truth
Lucas County Children Services (LCCS) is looking ahead to
2016 and asking individuals and families to make becoming a
licensed foster/adoptive caregiver one of their New
Year’s resolutions.
LCCS currently
needs families willing to foster children of all ages,
particularly young children and groups of three or more
brothers and sisters who have been victims of abuse or
neglect.
The agency is again providing its free information and
training classes at its offices, located at 705 Adams Street
in downtown Toledo.
Tuesday/Thursday evening classes run January 6 through
February 11, 2016, from 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday sessions are
scheduled for February 13 through March 19, 2016, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., and classes will be held on Monday/Wednesday
evenings from April 4 through May 11, 2016, from 6 to 9 p.m.
To register for any of these sessions, please call
419-213-3336
or visit
www.lucaskids.net.
Qualifying to
be a foster or adoptive parent is easier than you think.
You...
* Must
be at least 18 years of age to adopt; 21 to become a foster
parent
* Begin the process by attending the free, 36-hour
training program
* Can be married, single or in a relationship
* Can own or rent a home/apartment that can pass a
safety inspection and that has
at least two bedrooms
* Can work outside the home
* Must demonstrate a source of income sufficient to
care for yourself
* Agree to a background check
* Receive financial support, based on your
child(ren)?s needs
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