When it comes to foster care, we’ve all heard a familiar story: Biological parents are the villains and it is our job, as a community, to swoop in to save kids from troubled circumstances. But this stereotype does an injustice to the reality of most families in the system — and it’s past time to flip the script.
June is National Reunification Month, a fitting occasion to reshape the narrative about families in crisis. As the lead agency overseeing child welfare in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, Embrace Families serves more than 2,600 vulnerable children and their families each day.
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