A Call to Action for Children
in Foster Care
Raise
Me Up campaign shows how people can get involved to serve children
Raise
Me Up
is an effort by Deschutes Children and Families Commission, Court Appointed
Special Advocates (CASA ), DHS, and
Casey Family Programs to shed light on the challenges of children in foster
care. Casey Family Programs is the largest national
operating foundation whose sole mission is to provide and improve – and
ultimately prevent the need for – foster care.
A
grassroots effort to bring over 200 community members together to represent the
number of children that spent at least one day in foster care last year is scheduled
during the noon hour on April 2, the beginning of Child Abuse Prevention month.
As
a call-to-action we are asking citizens during their lunch hour to meet in
front of the courthouse starting at noon .
The “Raise Me Up” ceremony will start
at 12:15 with opening remarks provided by Judge Brady and a foster care youth. The
ceremony will conclude at 12:30 with a special flag raising ceremony and
citizens joining hands around the courthouse. The flag will fly the month of
April to remind our community the challenges foster children face and what
people who want to serve can do - fostering or adopting children, volunteering
to help or working directly with youth, or raising awareness about foster care.
“As
a community it is our fundamental obligation to help children who are in foster
care through no fault of their own,” said Pam Fortier, Executive Director of CASA of Central Oregon. “Raise Me Up” is a call to action for everyone who believes that
these vulnerable children deserve the opportunity to grow up happy, healthy and
successful. But to truly raise these children up, and reduce the need for
foster care in the first place, we need the help of the whole community. Together
we can lift up the lives of children in foster care and we think this event will
inspire people to do just that.”
Visit
www.raisemeup.oregon.gov , for more
information about foster care and how you can serve children in Deschutes
County.
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