From CARING for Children
Press Release
CARING for Children is pleased to announce a $10,000 grant award from the Pisgah Investments Foundation to fund the Angels Watch program in 2015.
CARING for Children’s Angels Watch program helps families in crisis by providing short-term foster care to young children (ages 0 to 6 or sibling groups up to age 10) while parents work to resolve their problems. The program employs licensed, trained foster parents who work together with natural parents to help children understand and adapt to their temporary home. A CARING for Children caseworker oversees the situation and provides access to helpful resources to get the family back on their feet. In the end, children are kept safe and involvement with Department of Social Service can usually avoided. In 2014, Angels Watch served 18 children from 22 families. 20 of those families were able to successfully resolve their problems and had their children return home.
“The grant will help provide over 330 nights of care to children whose parents are struggling to hold on” said John Lauterbach, Executive Director for CARING for Children. “We’re so grateful to the Pisgah Investments Foundation for this extraordinary gift!”
Over the past 17 years, Angels Watch has helped strengthen hundreds of families. The program does not receive any government funding and is primarily supported through a local grant from the United Way and some community donations.
For more information about Angels Watch or to make a donation, please visit www.Caring4Children.org or call (828) 785-1590.
About CARING for Children:
CARING for Children is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a program of Eckerd that has served children and families throughout Buncombe County and Western North Carolina for over 40 years. CARING has developed highly successful and effective programs in Foster Care, Residential Group Homes, Mental Health Services and Family Support and Respite to serve over 1,100 children and families in our community.
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