{"id":89,"date":"2018-09-10T01:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T01:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2018-10-15T00:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T00:58:27","slug":"foster-care-resource-and-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/?page_id=89","title":{"rendered":"Foster Care Resource and Information&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the updates to the site wanted to share some resource information and links related to foster care.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DSHS Government Reports on Foster Care &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/publications\/reports\">https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/publications\/reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page-header\">Foster Parenting &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/foster-parenting\">https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/foster-parenting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Parent resources on Foster Parenting &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/parents\/\">https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/parents\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"title1\">National Foster Care Month\u00a0<span class=\"title2\">2018 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/\">https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In doing some investigation into Washington State and working with our state representatives, I learned that as at June 30, 2018:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Placement\u00a0Type<\/td>\n<td>Unrelated\u00a0Licensed\u00a0Foster\u00a0Parents<\/td>\n<td>Relatives<\/td>\n<td>Other<\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Number\u00a0of\u00a0Children\u00a0Placed<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">4,258<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">4,247<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">808<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">9,313<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Here is a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/reports\/2017-OFCO-Annual-Report.pdf\">Office of the Family and Children&#8217;s Ombuds<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Great Contacts from the State of Washington:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Holly Luna<\/em><\/strong>\/ Program Manager\u00a0\/ Foster Care Recruitment &amp; Retention<br \/>\n<em>Department of Children, Youth and Families<br \/>\n<\/em>1115 Washington St., S.E. \/ PO Box 40983<br \/>\nOlympia, WA\u00a0 98504-5710<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcyf.wa.gov\">www.dcyf.wa.gov<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:merrill.waterhouse@dcyf.wa.gov\">holly.luna@dcyf.wa.gov<\/a> \/ 360-902-8035 \/ 360-791-1165<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Caldier<br \/>\n<\/strong>State Representative<br \/>\n26th Legislative District<br \/>\n(360) 786-7802<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Michelle.Caldier@leg.wa.gov\">Michelle.Caldier@leg.wa.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the updates to the site wanted to share some resource information and links related to foster care. DSHS Government Reports on Foster Care &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/publications\/reports Foster Parenting &#8211; https:\/\/www.dshs.wa.gov\/ca\/foster-parenting Parent resources on Foster Parenting &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/parents\/ National Foster Care Month\u00a02018 &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/fostercaremonth\/resources\/ In doing some investigation into Washington State and working with our state representatives, I learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeallianceforkids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}