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From YouTube: Buncombe News Update - Foster Adopt Fall Festival
Description
The Department of Social Services holds a Foster Adopt Fall Festival annual to recruit for foster and adoptive parents. This event provides all the information you need to determine if you would like to provide a home for the more than 250 chilldren in Buncombe County alone that needs a home and family to love. Department of Social Services from the surrounding area and private organizations are on hand to assist with questions and guide you.
B
C
Nice
place
in
one
setting
where
you
can
speak
to
buncombe
county
dss.
We
have
some
of
our
neighboring
counties
as
well,
and
our
private
agency
partners
who
license
foster
parents,
so
you
can
get
information,
contact
information,
learn
about
training
what
you
need
to
have
and
what
you
need
to
do
in
order
to
become
a
foster
parent.
Events
like
this
are
important,
because
the
community
is
not
aware
in
general
of
the
need
that
we
have
to
provide
safe
homes
for
kids,
who
are
in
foster.
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Some
folks
go
into
it
with
just
the
idea
of
fostering
and
end
up
adopting
as
well.
For
example,
I
have
a
foster
parent
that
became
licensed
and
is
now
adopting
a
16
year
old
who's
been
sitting
in
foster
care
for
six
years,
and
so
these
kids
achieve
permanency
and
they
get
a
forever
family
and
the
impact
is
is
wide
all
through
north
carolina.
There
are
thousands
of
children
in
foster
care
and
there's
quite
a
few
in
buncombe
county
alone
that
are
cleared
for
adoption.
A
Foster
care
is
a
temporary
situation
and
we
need
families
who
will
support
those
children
and
provide
them
with
a
safe,
caring
environment,
while
they're
in
foster
care,
and
then
there
are
times
when
children
can't
safely
return
home
and
some
of
those
foster
parents
are
also
interested
in
providing
a
permanent
home
through
adoption.
Our.
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A
We
try
to
maintain
all
the
kids
within
their
home
communities,
so
it's
particularly
important
to
have
foster
families
in
the
communities
where
kids
come
from,
which
can
be
everywhere
from
asheville
proper
to
surrounding
areas,
and
we
want
to
have
a
really
robust,
diverse
mix
of
foster
parents
so
that
we
can
match
them
best
with
children
and
that
we
also
can
have
foster
families
who
will
take
teenagers
that
sometimes
it's
a
little
bit
more
difficult
to
find
families
who
will
take
teenagers
as
well
as
sibling
groups.
We've.
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Had
within
the
last
since
july,
approximately
72
children
come
into
custody
and
because
of
that,
we
just
do
not
have
the
homes
that
are
available
to
meet
all
the
needs.
So
we
have
to
contract
with
private
agencies
and
so
we're
here
in
buckingham
county.
We
prefer
to
be
able
to
place
them
within
our
own
county
agency
and
within
our
own
homes,
and
by
working
with
dss.
We,
we
know
the
system,
we
understand
it
and
we
work
well
within
the
system
and
working
with
families.
F
G
Went
into
it
thinking,
we
were
pretty
clear
about,
you
know
what
fostering
was
all
about,
but
the
class
that
we
took
it
really.
I
feel
like
now
that
we've
been
foster
parents
for
over
a
year
we
draw
on
it
almost
every
day.
It
was
incredibly
useful
and
it
gave
us
a
lot
of
really
good
tools
and
all
the
all
the
information
that
we
learned
in
it
we've
used.
G
G
H
One
of
the
biggest
things
is
to
get
people
to
know
exactly
what
you've
been
through.
You've
had
the
experiences,
not
necessarily
all
of
them,
but
whenever
they
have
questions,
you
know
it's
good
to
have
somebody
who
has
already
already
had
those
experiences
that
can
talk
to
them
about
them
and
hopefully
dispel
any
rumors
that
they
may
have
heard
or
any
questions
they
have
in
their
mind.
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Working
with
the
the
kids,
biological
family
has
really
been
something.
That's
been
been
a
really
important
step
sort
of
in
the
long
term
process.
We're
in
a
position
where
we're
looking
at
fostering
and
potentially
adopting
in
the
long
term
and
just
being
able
to
have
the
kids
still
connected
with
their
family
and
with
their
extended
family
that
they
knew
and
grew
up
with,
is
just
really
really
important.
And
we
get
the
the
benefit
of
support
from.
G
F
Have
this
experience
I
mean
this:
is
it's
turned
us
from
just
a
sort
of
this
little
island
and
us
as
a
couple
into
a
family
and
now
we're
part
of
the
community,
we're
part
of
a
network
of
people
who
support
and
care
for
kids
that
otherwise
may
not
have
been
supported
and
cared
for
in
a
way.
That's
really
meaningful.
G
I
G
We
need
a
family,
don't
overthink
it
I
mean
if
you
love
children.
The
thing
I
learned
the
thing
I
heard
in
class
that
I
always
share
with
people
is,
I
don't
care
what
question
you're
going
to
ask
me
or
what
answer
I'm
going
to
give
you
one
day
of
love
for
a
child
is
more
important
than
none.
So
if
you
just
do
one
day,
that's
you're,
giving
more
than
you
could
possibly
know,
and
you
need
to
go
into
it
for
the
child
and
not
for
yourself.