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10 Hall County churches form coalition to support foster families
Ministers to address foster care crisis from the pulpit April 17 and 24
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Blackshear Place Baptist Church, at 3428 Atlanta Highway in Flowery Branch, is one of 10 churches forming a coalition to provide support to foster care families. An information meeting about becoming a foster parent or volunteering to help will be from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at First Baptist Church in Gainesville. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Around October 2015, almost 200 children were removed from their homes in Hall County. Nearly three-quarters of those had to move out of town — away from family, friends and school — because not enough families to care for them were here. This amounts to a foster care crisis in Hall County and across the state as foster parents are desperately needed to house Georgia’s most fragile residents.