{"id":17716,"date":"2021-02-17T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:35:08","slug":"central-florida-sees-greater-need-for-foster-families-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/central-florida-sees-greater-need-for-foster-families-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida Sees Greater Need for Foster Families During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><strong>Brevard County, FL &#8211;<\/strong> Another troubling result of the pandemic is its impact on families. Experts say more children are ending up in temporary homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trend in Brevard County is alarming.\u00a0\u201cI thought there was no way I&#8217;d be chosen as a foster mom because I am a single parent,\u201d Valeria Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is a single mother of two teenagers and a foster mother to two children, ages 10 months and 9 years old. Jones also works full-time.\u00a0&#8220;So you take out the word foster, and what you are is you are a parent, right? At the end of the day you treat all your kids the same and when they walk through the door they become my children,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has been a foster parent for about five years with Brevard Family Partnership of Melbourne. She said she did have a concern about fostering during a pandemic. \u201cCOVID is a concern and in my head, I have said no, but when they call I always say yes. The kids need us and whether they have COVID, the cold or the flu, they still need a good home and so I continue to say yes,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Wesh 2 news story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/central-florida-foster-families\/35528111#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brevard County, FL &#8211; Another troubling result of the pandemic  [&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-articles","wpautop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Central Florida Sees Greater Need for Foster Families During the Pandemic - Family Partnerships of Central Florida<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/central-florida-sees-greater-need-for-foster-families-during-the-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Central Florida Sees Greater Need for Foster Families During the Pandemic - Family Partnerships of Central Florida\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brevard County, FL &#8211; 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