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October 27, 2010
Oct. 27, 2010
SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, together with Southfield-based Spaulding for Children, today announced a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's Bureau to develop a best practice model to recruit foster and adoptive parents.
"All children deserve a safe, loving and stable home," MDHHS Director Ismael Ahmed said today. "The department and our private agency partners have made significant strides in the past year to ensure children leave the foster care system better off than when they entered.
"We will continue to do our part to make sure that happens for children in Michigan's foster care system."
The $2 million grant will be used to develop and pilot a best practice outreach model in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties, which are responsible for nearly 42 percent of the state's foster care cases. The grant funding will be spread over five years.
The grant specifically aims to increase awareness of the need for foster care parents, place children in permanent homes in a timely manner, and find appropriate placements for children with disabilities, teens and siblings.
Additionally, the grant will fund media outreach and hire an independent firm to track progress, said Addie Williams, president and chief executive officer of Spaulding for Children, a private child welfare agency that wrote the grant proposal on behalf of MDHHS.
"This grant will allow Spaulding to partner with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate and integrate the many wonderful programs MDHHS currently has to find and support permanent homes for children," Williams said. "This includes programs that recruit foster and adoptive families, as well as those that support children and families and create system changes."
MDHHS and its private agency partners have made significant progress in reforming the state's child welfare system, including lowering worker caseloads, reuniting children with their families, finding permanent homes when that's not possible, and expanding and enhancing services to children and families.
In September, the department received $3.5 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care in 2009 to 3,030 - the largest number in the department's history.
Strong partnerships, such as those between MDHHS and private providers such as Spaulding for Children, produce the best results for children, said Susan Hull, Oakland County MDHHS child welfare director.
"The grant allows us to look at new and creative strategies for the recruitment of foster and adoptive homes to serve children in foster care," Hull said. "The Metro Detroit area has the largest foster care population in the state. We want all of our children coming into care to have the best possible placement that meets all of their needs, while keeping them in their communities and schools and with their siblings."
Of the more than 15,200 children currently in foster care, about 3,500 are available for adoption because they are state or court wards after their parents' rights were terminated by a court due to abuse or neglect.
For more information about foster care and adoption, please visit, www.michigan.gov/adoption, and follow DHS on Twitter @MichiganDHS or become a fan at http://www.facebook.com/MichiganHHS.