Read the full story on the Santa Clarita Valley Signal website. In fact, Children’s Bureau turns away at least 10 sibling sets weekly due to lack of families.Įven so, Children’s Bureau has continued to offer orientations for families interested in foster care or adoption, with more than 250 families participating virtually through the pandemic, while 50 of those families have since begun the process of becoming resource parents, according to Boylan. The joint ISI metric penalizes SCV estimates which are not consistently aligned across datasets and it is normalized so that 0 ISIJNT 1 with 0 being. Many of these children are either older or siblings in need of families who are willing and able to keep them together. How many children are in foster care? In Los Angeles County alone, the foster care population exceeds 21,000 children, with 200 of those foster children waiting for an adoptive family. “There are many people who are concerned, and should be concerned, about the pandemic and maybe are not so keen about having a child they know nothing about come into their home,” Boylan added. … But what we’ve done is we’ve really latched on to the whole virtual concept, so kids are still being seen the way they should be.”Īs worries of COVID-19 continue, it’s also been difficult to place children in homes. “These kids come in, they’re needing companionship, they’re needing a family, they’re needing connection. “This is a people business - it really is all about relationships,” Boylan said. In working with children, having to restrict in-person services has been difficult, but not impossible. In late 2022, 84.7 million was invested in 36 communities across the west to respond to the drought. “Children’s Bureau has really been out there to meet the needs of the community.”Ĭhildren’s Bureau has hosted drive-up giveaways for families in need of essential supplies, such as fresh food, diapers, formula and more, and has provided more than 2,000 hours of virtual mental health services, along with more than 3,000 hours of virtual support groups. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, secured funds. How do we still do our job and still make sure that everybody stays healthy?’ And the agency has really taken it seriously,” Boylan added. “When this hit in March, Children’s Bureau kicked it up into high action and thought, ‘We need to protect everybody. That doesn’t stop.”Ĭhildren’s Bureau offers a comprehensive foster care and adoption program, along with prevention programs and mental health programs - none of which have stopped through the pandemic.
“There’s children still being abused, still being neglected, and they need a family. “We haven’t stopped and we’re not going to because the need is always there,” said Bernadette Boylan, program manager for foster care and adoption at Children’s Bureau.
Through the pandemic, Children’s Bureau, a nonprofit leader in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect in Southern California, has continued to serve more than 50,000 at-risk children across Southern California. “This devastating loss of life touches families across the county,” she added.The SCV Signal | Children’s Bureau continues foster care information, services virtually
This medical emergency, however, comes amid heightened concern about opioid overdoses.Ĭounty officials have formed a working group to reduce these overdoses, which kill an average of four people every day in Los Angeles County, according to Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. Hart Union High School District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman told KTLA that what led up to the student’s illness remains unclear. Though officials only described the student as “sick” and the call for service as a “medical emergency,” the student was administered naloxone, an opioid reversal drug that is also known by the brand name Narcan, the Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported.įentanyl is an opioid that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. A student at Arroyo Seco Junior High School in Santa Clarita was taken to a local hospital after they possibly overdosed on fentanyl Wednesday afternoon.
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