Organization highlights need for foster parents in Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — It is Nationwide Foster Care Month and there are at present greater than 10,000 Kentucky youngsters in foster care.

One group is working to search out loving properties to maintain these children protected, whereas additionally serving to them discover their subsequent step.

When dad or mum Leesa Del Rio heard the decision to be a foster dad or mum, little did she know the way a lot it could form her life.

“It has been the most important blessing to our household,” she mentioned.

Her journey began in 2011. During the last decade, she has welcomed Kentucky’s youngsters into her dwelling to assist them discover a everlasting dwelling.

“It has been an superior expertise simply to make clear the damaged locations in our communities,” mentioned Del Rio.

She has since fostered 10 youngsters and adopted three.

Now because the Worldwide Program Assistant for Nightlight Christian Adoptions, she needs to assist different mother and father really feel simply as fulfilled in giving again.

The brand new program supplies each non permanent and everlasting placement for foster children of all ages.

“The primary purpose in Kentucky and actually nationwide is reunification,” mentioned Govt Director Dana Poynter.

Nightlight works to search out loving non permanent and everlasting properties for youngsters that enter foster care.

In addition they assist incoming mother and father with the challenges of transitioning to a brand new dwelling.

“One of many issues that night time mild does very well is to arrange households to tackle that problem to dad or mum the kid successfully,” mentioned Poynter.

For the 17 hundred foster children accessible for adoption in Kentucky proper now, Poynter hopes discovering extra eligible foster mother and father will result in extra eternally households.

If you want extra data, you’ll be able to go to their web site at https://nightlight.org/kentucky-foster-care/