More than half of Los Angeles County’s 19,000 foster kids are Latino, but the number of Latino foster parents is under 2,000. This week an effort was launched to help close that gap.
The Department of Children and Family Services kicked off the “Juntos con los Niños” (or “Together with the Children”) recruitment campaign.
When kids can connect to their foster parent on a cultural level, it changes their experience in foster care, Ginger Pryor with DCFS said.
