#FosterChildFindFamily
November is marked as Adoption Awareness Month each
year. By welcoming the year 2024, to draw attention on
adoption-related issues, with a particular emphasis on the
adoption of children who are older aged, require special need
or currently in foster care, CARA celebrating Adoption
Awareness Month 2024. This year's theme is
"Rehabilitation of Older Children through Foster Care
& Foster Adoption"
(Hashtag) FosterChildFindFamily: Foster care is an
arrangement whereby a child lives, usually on a temporary
basis, with unrelated family members. A child shall be
preferably placed with child’s extended family or with close
friends of the family who are known to child and when such
options are either not available or not willing to take care
of the child, the child may be placed in foster care. While
placing a child in foster care, preference shall be given to
those families that share similar cultural, tribal and /or
community connection. Children in the age group of 6-18
years, whose parents are unable to take care of them due
to reasons such as mental illness, poverty or imprisonment
and those staying in child care institutions placed in foster
care.
Family or a family like environment is most conducive for a
child and every child has the right to grow in such an
environment.