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Open Arms Campaign is a Seattle area non-profit volunteer
organization dedicated to the recruitment of foster and adoptive
homes. Thank you for visiting our website.
We hope that the information will encourage you to get involved
in the lives of "our" children.
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Questions?
toll-free number
(8 7 7) 5 3 4.1 7 2 3
Write to us @
Open Arms Campaign
PO Box 22228
Seattle, WA 98122-3906
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or contact us via email
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Today there are almost 600,000 children in foster care in the
United States, and over 17,000 children in care in Washington
State.
Learn
more about Derek ...
Children typically enter foster care as a result
of neglect or abuse. Although the goal is to work with the family
towards reunification, the safety of the children is supposed
to be the highest priority, and therefore, returning children
to their home is not always feasible.
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Open Arms Campaign would like to help these
children build new families through quality foster care and adoption.
To do this, we need more homes, and more help. Even those who
do not want to foster or adopt can contribute. You can become
a respite caregiver (an official 'baby-sitter') or a CASA (court
appointed special advocate). You can donate clothes, books, bicycles,
and toys. If you own a business, you can give gift certificates
for haircuts, movie passes, or CD's. You can sponsor kids for
music lessons, sports programs, or camp. Or you can volunteer
your time at one of the great organizations out there that are
trying to make childhood happy and safe for these children. It
really does take a village to raise a child.
For those who do want to know more, Open Arms Campaign hopes to
inform prospective and existing foster and adoptive families about
the differences of state and private licensing agencies, local
and national foster and adoptive resources, upcoming events and
projects, and, to share links to other great websites.
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Toll-free 1.877.534.1723
Open Arms Campaign is a project of
Gay Community
Social Services,
a 501(c)(3) non profit organization
© 2003 Open Arms Campaign - Web Site design
generously donated by
soft
fruit design
"We
live in a world in which we need to share responsibility.
It's easy to say, ' It's not my child, not my community, not my
world, not my problem.'
Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider
those people heroes." Fred
Rogers ( "Mr. Rogers")
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