Angels Foster Care

Results: Since our 2006 inception, we have placed 311 infants and toddlers in loving Angels Foster Care homes. Additionally, 151 of these children have been adopted by their Angels parents, 56 children were reunified with their parents, and 94 children were placed with an extended family home. Many of the children who were not adopted by Angels parents, or safely reunified with their parents, are being raised by their grandparents or other relatives.

Target demographics: vulnerable babies and toddlers in the Santa Barbara County foster care system

Geographic areas served: Santa Barbara County

Programs: Angels foster care of santa barbara enhances the lives of foster babies and toddlers that have been taken in to care by child protective services for abuse, neglect or abandonment in santa barbara county. The program carefully matches each child to a caring angels foster family who keeps them the entire time they are in dependency. Each home has a full time parent to help the child to bond and attach. Each angels child is the only foster placement in the home. This stability and love lead to secure attachment, excellent medical and developmental care and no interruption in services. Once a permanent plan for the child is decided in dependency court the child is reunified with their biological family or when this is not possible, adopted, often by their angels parents. (please see schedule o for continuation)angels program service accomplishments to date include the following:* in 2017, angels continued its work as a treatment foster family agency, providing a high level or training and support to children and angels families. * 141 foster families have been recruited, screened, trained and certified. * 232 infants and toddlers have been placed with angels' foster families. * 107 children have been adopted by their angels family. * 39 children have been reunified with their birth parent(s). * 86 children have permanency by relatives or other homes outside angels. * 18 children are in some stage of the dependency court process and are being fostered by an angels family until a permanent plan is reached. * angels reached our goal of having a planned giving option by partnering with santa barbara foundation. Angels also raised $100,000 for our endowment fund to begin the long term financial sustainability of angels foster care. Angels foster care continues to serve our community's youngest foster children with excellence. We are the referral of choice for foster children 2 years and under in santa barbara county. Teamed with our community partners we are raising the standard for foster youth in our community.