Family Find program helps foster children connect with extended family members.
Family Find is a partnership project aimed at establishing family connections between children in foster care and their relatives by locating long-term, caring, permanent connections and relationships for children and youth in foster care. The goal of this project is not in finding placement resources, but to assist youth in learning more about their families and having healthy connections with family members. Once located, interested family members are invited to get to know the youth in foster care and to help determine what kinds of emotional, physical, and family connective support the youth needs.
This program goes beyond the ODHS relative search to actively search for, engage with, and involve extended family members in forming lifelong connections with youth in foster care. Every child has a family and a meaningful connection to family helps a child develop a sense of belonging. Love and acceptance through extended family relationships is often an unmet need in foster care and one that is significant. The single factor most closely associated with positive outcomes for children in foster care is meaningful, lifelong connections to family.
This program goes beyond the ODHS relative search to actively search for, engage with, and involve extended family members in forming lifelong connections with youth in foster care. Every child has a family and a meaningful connection to family helps a child develop a sense of belonging. Love and acceptance through extended family relationships is often an unmet need in foster care and one that is significant. The single factor most closely associated with positive outcomes for children in foster care is meaningful, lifelong connections to family.
