IN PRINT
DARCY OLSEN
Founder & CEO
“We have newborns sleeping in offices,” the social worker told me. “If you could open a crib, we’d be thankful.” I couldn’t shake the image of newborns struggling under the glare of fluorescent lights. So, instead of fostering a teen as I’d planned, I left the hospital cradling an abandoned infant, meth-exposed. In a few short years, I’d taken home ten.
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DARCY OLSEN
Founder & CEO
“We have newborns sleeping in offices,” the social worker told me. “If you could open a crib, we’d be thankful.” I couldn’t shake the image of newborns struggling under the glare of fluorescent lights. So, instead of fostering a teen as I’d planned, I left the hospital cradling an abandoned infant, meth-exposed. In a few short years, I’d taken home ten.
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New beginnings start here.
Abandoned, abused and broken. Unable to live safely at home, 437,283 American children are living in temporary foster homes. Without better laws, their futures are in jeopardy.
2021
A LIFE-CHANGING YEAR
It's time to fix this.
The statistics are alarming.
CHANGING LAWS TO CHANGE LIVES
Fact Sheet: Family Search and Stability Act
The number of children in foster care is increasing. The goal of the Family Search and Stability Act is to place abandoned and abused children with caring relatives as soon as possible. Second, if relatives are not willing or able to take in the children, the Act seeks to minimize the number.
Fact Sheet: Attorneys for Foster Children
The fundamental rights of children are at stake in abuse and neglect court proceedings. Dependency courts have the power to remove children from their homes, determine who they live with, for how long, and decide whether they will ever see their families again.