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D. C. Mayor Helps Launch Foster Care Initiative 'Work Of Heart' Hopes To Boost Participation
D. C. Mayor Helps Launch Foster Care Initiative 'Work Of Heart' Hopes
To Boost Participation POSTED: 5:36 pm EST March 30, 2005 UPDATED: 6:15 pm EST March 30, 2005 WASHINGTON -- He has never made a secret of the fact that he was adopted as a child. But D. C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams says people often think he's from a privileged family. He credits his adoptive mother with raising him -- and seven siblings -- in the "nobility of hard work." Williams helped launch the Work of Heart Regional Recruitment Initiative on Wednesday, with a goal of increasing the number of foster parents in the Washington area by 20 percent. Supported by a federal grant and funding from the Freddie Mac Foundation, the program pays current foster parents an additional $500 a month to be part-time recruiters. "We can tell you it takes every bit of everything you have in you, and it's still worth it," said Marilyn Egerton, who fostered more than 25 district children over more than 13 years and adopted four of them. The goal is to train and license at least 125 new foster parents to accept children with special needs and groups of siblings. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and Freddie Mac will unveil a $150,000 radio ad campaign in mid-April. Work of Heart's Volunteer Respite Program will also certify people to care for foster children one weekend a month, offering foster parents much-needed breaks. "I've been in a situation where I've needed that break and have been unable to get it," Egerton said, adding that many foster children act out after being ripped away from biological parents. Along with Williams, U. S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona shared his personal story of adoption. "These were truly gifts -- I didn't recognize how much I would get in return," Carmona said of his three adopted children. "I'd like to have my own orphanage," he added. http://www.nbc4.com/news/4332225/detail.html "Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, For you are crunchy and taste good with catsup." |
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