Cherokee County Foster Care - CPR - Become a Foster Parent

Cherokee County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association

Building The Future with our Foster and Adoptive Parents as they open their hearts & their homes to children

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Thank You for visiting our site. We are a non-profit group made up of families providing support for children in need. Foster parents and their families open their hearts and homes to provide a safe and loving home to those in need. Children suffering from abuse and/or neglect are placed in care for days, weeks and sometimes years and are often adopted by their foster families.

Our mission is to be informative as well as supportive to our future and current foster and/or adoptive parents. We also want to encourage anyone wanting to become a foster/adoptive parent to go through our web site and learn what it takes to help a child. It takes a special person to give love and support to someone else's child. Are you that person?

We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) group, if you see that fostering children is not for you but you would still like to help contact us. There are many ways to help the children in need.

In Georgia, there are many children in foster care who need a foster family or adoptive family. The greatest need for foster parents is for older children, sibling groups and medically fragile children. The majority of children in need of adoptive families are aged 8 years and older, African American, male and/or a member of a sibling group who wish to be placed together.

Becoming a foster parent is a big commitment with even bigger rewards. The needs of children in care are not just food, clothing, and a safe secure home. They also need reassurance, encouragement, self esteem, love, and the ability to love someone else.

If you would like to learn more about fostering or adoption through Cherokee County Department of Family and Children Services, please call the Impact Inquiry Line at 877-210-5437. This is the first step to becoming a foster or adoptive parent.

WALK ME HOME - To the Place I Belong & Festival of Hope

Join the thousands and thousands of people who are participating in walks across America in support of the over 513,000 children in foster care! Experience the power of people united by a single purpose by joining Walk Me Home…to the place I belong. Start a family, business, school, or agency team today!

Join us on May 15, 2010 by walking for foster care in our 5K walk. Click this link to register for the walk. You can be apart of our cause by creating your own team and getting sponsors.

Following the walk we will have a festival in the park, plan to spend the day with your family having fun, food and activities.

If you would like to exhibit at our event click link below, fill out application and send it in. Festival, Vendor Application.

CPR & First Aid Training

All Foster Parents are required to take a CPR and keep it current. CPR cards are good for 2 years and certification is through American Heart Association. Because he is a foster parents himself he understands that your time is valuable and finding babysitters or respite to attend a class is not easy. He will bring the instruction to your door, yes he make house calls.

He offers a variety of CPR combinations depending on your needs, including but not limited to First Aid and Infant CPR. All instruction is provided on your schedule. Contact Jeff at jblackwell@firstactioncpr.com to get pricing and to schedule a class call 770-652-9051. This will be reimbursable to foster parents in need of certification and you will be able to count the time as training hours as well.

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