Children Need Adoptive Parents
Children Need Adoptive Parents
NEW HAVEN â Jewish Family Service is conducting an open recruitment to locate and identify families and individuals who are interested in becoming foster or adoptive parents to a child or sibling group between the ages of 4 and 14. As of September 1999, a total of 220 children under the care of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) were awaiting adoptive homes, while only 110 families were available for these children.
Jewish Family Service of New Haven was recently awarded a grant from DCF to study families or persons interested in becoming adoptive parents to these children in DCFâs care. Through this grant JFS will study and register 25 Connecticut families in the year 2000, to provide homes for children who need extra attention. Occasionally families are needed for younger children with special circumstances. People of all ethnic and religious backgrounds are sought and encouraged to call JFS.
For more information, please contact Dan Berns (extension 115) or Nancy Horowitz (extension 113) at 203/389-5599.