Program invites churches to help foster children
Regarding Alexis Paskalides' letter (Feb. 21) concerning the ballooning number of children in foster care in North Carolina, there is a program that would help reduce that number significantly. It is the One Church-One Child Program currently in place in 32 states.
This program was introduced in Rowan County through the Rowan County Department of Social Services by its placement support manager, Jon V. Hunter, in November 2006. Since then, many of Rowan County's churches have come on board. Together, the local DSS office and these churches have made a tremendous difference in the lives of children in foster care as well as in the lives of the children's biological parents in that county.
If the state agencies and public agencies in North Carolina would partner with this program, the lives of countless children in foster care would be forever changed for the better.
M.E. Sneed-Ellington
High Point
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