Hannah's Children's Homes
Hannah’s Children’s Homes aims to provide safe and nurturing environments for children while working to preserve families and establish permanency. Our ultimate goal is to empower and strengthen at-risk families through culturally sensitive educational training, therapeutic services, and interventions.
Children Are America’s Priority
The Problem: Almost 900,000 children each year in America are abused or neglected, one every 36 seconds. Forty percent of these children get no services after the initial investigation. Each year, more than 800,000 children spend time in foster care. On any given night, 200,000 children are homeless — 1 in every 4 of the homeless population.
Why It Matters: The annual total direct and indirect costs of child maltreatment are estimated to be nearly $104 billion. Children left with no permanent family connections or a connection with a caring adult have no one to whom they can turn for social, emotional, or financial support and face numerous barriers as they struggle to become self-sufficient adults.
What Must Be Done: We must expand prevention and specialized treatment services for children and their parents, connect children to caring permanent families, improve the quality of the child welfare workforce, and increase accountability for results for children.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Adoption
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.
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Jun 02, 2020
Love her house