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Project: African American Outreach

There is a shortage of African American foster families in San Diego to meet the growing needs of the babies and toddlers in the foster care system.

African Americans are disproportionately represented in foster care. African Americans make up 7.9% of San Diego’s population —yet African American children made up 20% of the children under age 5 admitted to the Polinsky Children’s Shelter in 2004.

Children born to the youngest mothers (17 and younger) are more likely to be from a racial or ethnic minority group then children born to older moms.

At the very top of the adoption hierarchy are white, blue-eyed, blond haired girls. At the very bottom of the hierarchy are African American boys. 56% of children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American.

American couples go to China and Romania to adopt babies, but there are plenty of American babies who need homes – African American babies. More and more of these children are finding homes abroad, especially in Canada. Accordingly to National statistics, for every 1,000 African American children in the US population, there were 21 in foster care vs. 8 for all other races combined.

The Angels Foster Family Network places only infants and toddlers in foster care, and Angels will collaborate with several San Diego community churches and other African American organizations in an effort to recruit more qualified families with shared ethnicities to care for the African American babies and toddlers in need of loving homes.

The Alliance Healthcare Foundation supports Angels in their marketing efforts to identify more African American families to foster the large number of African American babies seeking foster homes. With a grant of $25,000, they have provided resources for this outreach.

How You Can Help

To learn about becoming a foster parent, call 619-283-8100 and find out when an information meeting is being held in your neighborhood. We need you—and the babies need you. Consider being an Angels Foster Parent.

If you cannot foster a child yourself, please tell others about this desperate need, and about the Angels African American Outreach program.

For more information, contact us today. San Diego area only please.

Brochure
Download our African American Outreach brochure in PFD (Adobe Acrobat) format. Full color, two sides, 355 KB. Click here to download the brochure. If the brochure opens in Acrobat, choose Save from the Acrobat menu to save it to your computer. Alternately, you can right-click on the download link and choose "Save As" or "Save Target As..."

Radio Interview with Angels CEO Cathy Richman
A half-hour interview on "The Soul of San Diego" with host Deborah Stevens. Cathy discusses the shortage of African American foster families.
Listen here (MP3 format) Click to listen online, or if you prefer to save the MP3 file to your own computer, right-click, choose "Save," then listen with your MP3 player.

NEW VIDEO!
Angels African American Outreach Video
Angels has produced this all new video for our African American Outreach progrom. Watch the video

Your generous donations make these videos and Angels programs possible. Donate now

See the "Earning Your Wings" Video
Please watch our Earning Your Wings video to learn more about the crisis in foster care and how you can help. (9 min 30 sec)

Call Now to Change a Child's Life
Call 619-283-8100 or contact us on-line to learn how you can make a donation or become a foster parent.

Please note that Angels places babies only in San Diego County of California.We regret that many of the interested applicants who contact us live outside of this area, but we cannot accept any applications from outside of San Diego County.