In seventeen years, FCNI has served 1,672 foster children/youth with an 85% overall success ratio.
 




Sam's Story - OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
"The agency's Transitional Housing Placement Program was only one of two programs in the nation able to accept Sam because of his disability."

Sam is an eighteen year old foster youth who came to Family Care Network with multifaceted needs and in danger of emancipating without the means to support himself. You see, Sam is deaf, and as a result had not been able to finish high school and like many foster youth his age, lacked the life skills needed to survive on his own. The agency's Transitional Housing Placement Program was only one of two programs in the nation able to accept Sam because of his disability. Sam currently has a job and lives in his own apartment with a Family Care Network Resident Assistant who is proficient in sign language. Sam¹s Youth Development Specialist (YDS) learned basic sign language to communicate with Sam as well.

Sam will receive his Adult Education Diploma at the end of the school year, which will open up the opportunity for him to secure a good job and a better life. He has learned to be much more independent. He fully utilizes public transportation to get himself to work and appointments, and he's learned how to survive on his own despite his disability. All Sam needed was someone to reach out a hand and offer him a chance at life. The Family Care Network always offers a helping hand because, despite the challenges faced, Sam is living proof that our mission to help children and families works!

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