Children's Bureau Family Foster Care & Adoption
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Contact Information
1910 Magnolia Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90007
United States
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Los Angeles, CA 90007
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Saturday | 8:30 AM-5 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
In Los Angeles County alone, the foster care population exceeds 33,000 children. Within the local foster care program, 200 of those foster children are waiting for an adoptive family and a place to call home.
Many of these foster youth are siblings in need of a resource family that is willing and able to keep them together. Because the number of foster kids in need of care exceeds the number of foster family applicants available, our foster care agency is forced to turn away 10+ sibling sets weekly. We wish this weren’t the case.
Our team at Children’s Bureau works to strengthen at-risk families and local communities so that every child can grow up safe, nurtured, and full of life. We empower you to make a difference in your communities by becoming a foster parent.
Help local at-risk youth by giving them a home that’s familiar, nearby, and inclusive to their foster siblings. You have the opportunity to change a child’s life.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
- Other
Requirements to become a foster parent
Many do not realize the need for new resource families in California. The number of foster kids outnumber the foster families who can provide short or long-term care. Foster advocates work hard to find places for these children, but it is not easy.
The latest 2021 report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) report in California says there are:
- 47,871 kids in California's foster care system
- 22,892 who entered foster care
- 15,386 foster kids awaiting adoption
- California foster kids across all ages, with a median of 8 years
- 33% whose foster child case plans include adoption
A child's median time in the California foster care system is over a year at 16.8 months. 13% spend 3-4 years in foster care.
California needs foster parents to take in multiple children if they have the time and energy to care for them. Sibling groups often need care, and it is essential to support these family bonds. In California, it is challenging to find homes for teenagers, though they need stable environments and reliable adults to support them.
Ratings and Reviews
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Feb 03, 2017
Very informative, very welcoming and friendly staff.
Aug 10, 2016
Preschool, clinic, bank, lift, many resources found in one building.!
Feb 02, 2016
(Translated by Google) I need the phone number
(Original)
Nececito el numero de telefono
Dec 31, 2013
During the months of Jan-September 2012, I was entitled by the court to visit my infant son as arranged by my assigned social worker in coordination with the Children's Bureau "Adoption Advocate" Laura Siegelman, from 11:30am-1:30pm every Monday and Friday.
After 6 months of being denied any visitations, I got a court-order mandating that I receive visitations twice weekly. After a couple more weeks of being lied to, I finally got to see my son after 5 months, in a windowless 10*10 foot room, and began a twice weekly routine of driving to Los Angeles 2 hours early to more often than not be informed by a last minute phone call from Laura to tell my wife and I that she would not be calling the foster parents, ensuring that they did not bring my son.
When they did arrive with our son, they were often invited to narrate a slide-show through our visitation time displaying a slide-show of their living room over our heads. When our infant would be calm enough to close his eyes and smile and rest, Laura Siegelman would slam a book or a ruler against a desk to make him start crying.
After our court hearing of August 28th, her interference was revealed to be more malicious than negligent, as she had reported in a sworn affadavit that our visitations were cancelled each week when she observed us to be high on drugs. Many of the times she cancelled our visits, she refused to come out from behind the armored door, sending instead her supervisor with advanced-age and severe senility to break the news that we had driven 100 miles for nothing. She also reported to the court that the foster parents had "driven all the way out to LA" due to my alleged deceptions. She had no ethical qualms about lying to the court and told us such to our face.
After transferring our case to Orange County to be free of her interference, I was horrified to discover her continued lingering at our visitation locations taking photos of us, and writing letters, and soliciting defamation, until our OC worker discovered something about her past history with Orange County.