{"id":14849,"date":"2019-11-22T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fpocf.org\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2019-11-22T02:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:00:01","slug":"celebration-of-adoption-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/celebration-of-adoption-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Adoption event joins 17 Brevard foster youth with their \u201cforever families\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MELBOURNE, FL \u2013 November 22, 2019 \u2013 Brevard Family Partnership, in conjunction with the Honorable Jennifer Taylor, Guardian ad Litem Program, DCF, Family Allies, and IMPOWER, hosted a Celebration of Adoption event on November 22, 2019, to celebrate the joining of 17 Brevard County foster youth with their \u201cforever families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\nthe official, yet festive ceremonial proceedings, each family appeared before\nJudge Jennifer Taylor and Brevard Family Partnership\u2019s attorney, and presented\nthe final permanency documents to the court, completing the adoption process.\nFollowing the ceremonies, a lunch reception for the newly-formed families was\nheld in the courtroom, provided by Chick-fil-A of Viera.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncelebration aligns with November\u2019s National Adoption Month, an initiative of\nthe Children&#8217;s Bureau, with a goal to increase national awareness and bring\nattention to the need for permanent families for children and youth in the U.S.\nfoster care system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brevard\nFamily Partnership, along with partner agency IMPOWER, has joined with the\nBrevard community giving youth whose parents could no longer care for them, the\nsafety and stability of a permanent and lasting family connection.&nbsp; Since Inception in 2005, over 1200 children\nhave been adopted out of Brevard\u2019s child welfare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nmore information about adopting a child in foster care, please call Brevard\nFamily Partnership at (321) 752-4650 or visit www.fpocf.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Brevard Family\nPartnership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established\nin 2003 as a non-profit organization in response to the Legislative mandate toprivatize foster care and related\nservices in Florida (Section 409.986, Florida Statutes), Brevard Family\nPartnership is Brevard County\u2019s lead child welfare agency. The agency was subsequently\nawarded the contract, through the Florida Department of Children and Families,\nto manage Brevard County\u2019s child welfare system. Working in partnership with\nover 50 community organizations, its mission is to protect children, strengthen\nfamilies and change lives through the prevention of child abuse and the\noperation and management of a comprehensive, integrated, community-based system\nof care for abused, abandoned and neglected children, and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, FL \u2013 November 22, 2019 \u2013 Brevard Family Partnership,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-articles","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebration of Adoption event joins 17 Brevard foster youth with their \u201cforever families\u201d - 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