Central West youth service, Veritas House will host a free Foster Carer Information session in Cowra next week.
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The meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 13 from 5.30pm to urge local residents with room in their heart and home for vulnerable children to consider foster care.
The information session is an opportunities for Cowra residents to learn more about foster caring.
Expected to run for 30 minutes the Information session will be held from 5.30pm at the Cowra Bowling Club.
For more information or to register to attend visit the Veritas House Facebook Events page, or contact Bridget Tracy on 1300 01 1973.
According to Veritas House Operations Manager - Permanency Support, Joel Palmer, more than 80 children and young people aged from newborns to 18 year olds are currently being provided with a safe and supportive home environment by Veritas Foster Carers in the Cowra, Canowindra, Bathurst and Orange communities.
"Children and young people are taken into Out-of-Home Care through no fault of their own.
"Often it is because they have been abused, neglected or abandoned by the people who were supposed to care for them; and often the parents have experienced the same trauma themselves," Mr Palmer said.
"Our Foster Carers play a critical role in assisting children and young people in their care to grow and develop in a happy and heathy way.
"We urgently need local families and individuals to put up their hand and say 'I can help a little one' because these children deserve to feel special and worthy and loved."
The number of Children and Young People who entered Out-of-Home Care increased from 10,000 in 2006 to 18,000 in 2016.
While the number of entries into care between 2015-16 and 2017-18 declined, there were still more than 2,100 children and young people in care in NSW in 2017-18.
Carers can be single, married, in a de-facto or in a same sex relationship.
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