Families for Families | Every One Counts

Guest Speaker: Shannon Ramsey, Chief Recruitment Officer from Families for Families

F4F Mission: Connecting with local churches to recruit and support faith-based families that can provide loving homes to children in the Georgia Foster Care System.

"Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." -- 1 Peter 5:8

Facts:
- 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes - 5 times the average
- 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes - 32 times the average
- 85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes - 20 times the average
- 80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes - 14 times the average
- 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes - 9 times the average
- 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes - 10 times the average

"You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry." -- Exodus 22:22-23

"Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause." -- Isaiah 1:17

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." -- James 1:27

There are twice as many churches in Georgia as there are children in foster care.

This week in Georgia:
- 2 girls who were abused or neglected and placed in DFCS custody will be sold or end up in sex trafficking
- 8.6 children will go missing from DFCS
- 7 girls will turn 18 and age out of foster care - 5 of these girls will be pregnant within a year
- 7 boys will turn 18 and age out of foster care - 5.6 of these boys will go to jail for survival crimes
- F4F will deny 46 children due to lack of foster homes available
- Atlanta will remain one of the highest cities in the nation for sex trafficking
- 70% of the girls in sex trafficking came through foster care

Children in Care:
- Jeff Davis: 18
- Coffee: 205
- Ware: 125
- Pierce: 75
- Appling: 40
- Bacon: 39
- Total: 502 children

Fulton + Dekalb:
- Residents: 1,842,097
- Children in Care: 927
- 28 Child Placing Agencies

South Central Region
- Residents: 639,622
- Children in Care: 1,512
- 8 Child Placing Agencies (7 in Lowndes and 1 in Glynn)

How You Can Be Involved:
- Date Nights
- Meals
- Mentor/Babysitter
- Prayer Partner
- Handy Man
- Family Friend
- Birthday Bags
- Diaper Drive
- Respite Home

Shannon Ramsey, Chief Recruitment Officer
470-469-7766
shannon@families4families.cc