Title
Proclamation - Foster Care Awareness Month (Chair Jerrell)
Action
ACTION:
Adopt a proclamation declaring May 2025 as "Foster Care Awareness" Month in Mecklneburg County
Commission Sponsor: Chair Jerrell
Reading: Commissioner Leake
Staff Contact: Kimberly Henderson, Director, Child, Family and Adult Services
Presentation: Yes
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
Mecklenburg County urges all of its citizens to take the time to celebrate and thank those who work with our children and youth. It is also a time to focus on the foster children who wait in foster homes for permanent and adoptive families, as well as those children who are turning 18 and aging out of the foster care "system".
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