GIBSON COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) — June is foster reunification month, and in Indiana, organizations are letting foster families know that they are not alone in the process.
The adoption and foster care analysis reports that around 12,000 children are currently in Indiana’s foster care system. During Foster Reunification Month, agencies like stepstone family and youth services are working to increase the number of foster families.
Officials say there are only about four thousand five hundred available foster homes across the state. Stepstone says that makes the need for foster parents even more critical…