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Help America's Premature Foster Care Infants !

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Summary

“Help Save America’s Forgotten and Unfortunate Children.” We have abused and abandoned infants and children right here in AMERICA, and the problem is growing! read updates from the field

How You Can Help

Make a donation

$10 - Will provide 35 brochures to recruit “Nurses As Foster Parents”.
$25 - Will Pay for gas to pick up an abused child from the E.R.
$50 - Will pay for bandages and over the counter medication.
$100 - Will recruit one Nurse for Two Medically Fragile fostercare Infants/ children.

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Received $19,909 from 489 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Nationwide, more than 600,000 infants and children live in foster care. The number of foster care preemies has tripled in the last 20 years. Many of these infants who have suffered abuse and neglect have fallen through the cracks of our fractured child welfare system. Increased teen pregnancies and epidemic drug use by pregnant women have resulted in an escalating number of “Foster Care Preemies and infants who are medically fragile”. We need Nurses to bring them home.

Activities

The mission is to move medically fragile foster care babies and young children into private residences under the care of Registered and Licensed Vocational Nurses as their foster parents.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $19,909
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $30,091
Total Funding Goal: $50,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Due to drug use,there will always be a need for compassionate, capable, trained and knowledgeable nurses willing to embrace medically fragile foster care infants and children and provide them with a loving, safe and nurturing home environment.

Project Message

~ We Are All Angels With Only One wing And We Can Only Fly By Embracing One Another ~
- unknown, An Angel

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Linda Conforti
Founder
PO Box 1221
Blue Jay, Ca 92317
United States
1 800 974-4274
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Project Sponsor

Linda Conforti

Organization

Angels In Waiting
P.O Box 1221
Blue Jay, CA 92317
United States
1 800 974- 4274
http://www.angelsinwaitingUSA.org

Learn more about Angels In Waiting and the project team.

Angels In Waiting's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Children.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 28, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

How Many More Angels Must We Send Back To Heaven?

By Linda West - Conforti R.N. - Founder / Project Leader, June 22, 2010 02:00 PM

To Our Loyal and Dedicated Supporters,

In 2009, Within LA County Alone, More Than 268 Infants and Children Died in Foster Care, How Many More “Angels” Must We Send Back To Heaven?

Due to the shocking fact in the above statement, the founder of Angels In Waiting, Linda West- Conforti RN urgently sought the help from a well-known legal advocate for foster children within LA County. The activist was Linda Wallace- Pate, an Attorney at law who has represented foster children in LA County for over four decades. After she was privy to LA county's death toll for foster care infants and children. We quickly joined forces, and met with key people within the community to address these shocking statistics. Too many of these foster care infants, and children who were passed back into heaven, were special needs infants and children, these angels were placed into inappropriate foster homes, their foster parents were poorly trained and ill- equipped to address their special needs. They resided in neighborhoods that were greatly underserved by available county resources due to the new budget restraints. If Angels In Waiting’s Nurse program would have been utilized in LA County, the number of dead foster care infants and children would have been drastically reduced. Linda West -Conforti and Linda Wallace- Pate approached, UCLA, Charles Drew University and CDU School of Nursing with our lifesaving and innovative nursing outreach program. Both UCLA and Charles Drew University are now seeking federal grants, to implement our Angels In Waiting Nursing Recruitment Program into their community to address the dire needs of their forgotten population of foster care infants and children who reside in their own backyard.

Please, continue to support our noble cause. Furthermore, please place our widget from Global Giving's website onto your social networking site to help support our cause. For our goal is to implement our lifesaving program throughout our nation. Please, Together We Can Save Countless Childhoods" by promoting Angels In Waiting's Widgets.

“How many angels must we pass back to heaven, when on this earth we can help transform their precious lives today?

Sincerely,

Linda West –Conforti RN

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