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Happy
Spring from SCA!
From all of us here at
Sacramento Child
Advocates, we wish you a
warm and life giving
Spring.
We hope you will enjoy
our newsletter - you
will find everything
from how to get rid of
that old car to the
staff pick for the best
recipe for your weekend
get-together.
Message from the
Executive Director
Each year in May,
hundreds of events
across the nation take
place to honor foster
parents, raise
awareness, and engage
caring adults to
change a lifetime
for a young person in
foster care.
In Sacramento County,
people just like you are
helping young people in
foster care build
brighter futures by
serving as their foster
parents, relative
caregivers, mentors,
advocates, social
workers and volunteers.
But much more help is
needed. Most communities
are urgently seeking
more everyday people to
come forward and support
our nation’s most
vulnerable children so
they may realize their
full potential.
Foster Youth Awareness
Month provides an
opportunity for people
all across the nation to
focus attention on the
year-round needs of
American children and
youth in foster care.
The campaign raises
awareness about foster
care and encourages all
citizens to get involved
in the lives of these
youth, and most
importantly, it extends
the invitation to all of
you to help in whatever
way you can.
Currently, nearly half a
million children in the
United States are in
foster care because
their own families are
in crisis and unable to
provide for their
essential well-being.
Reports of abuse and
neglect have already
increased in some areas
of the country due to
the difficult economic
times and are expected
to rise as the economy
worsens.
No matter how much time
or money you have to
give, you have the power
to do something positive
that can and will
reverse this trend and
CHANGE A LIFETIME
for a young person in
foster care.
On behalf of myself and
all SCA staff I thank
you for any help you’re
able to give and I urge
you to become involved
and “change a lifetime.”
Robert Wilson, Executive
Director
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