8865-16 Recognize Foster Care Awareness Month

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RESOLUTIONNO. 8865 -16 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Litten, Marx, O'Leary, O'Malley. A RESOLUTION designating May as Foster Care Month in Lakewood, Ohio. WHEREAS, Foster Care Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges of children in the foster care system, and encourage the implementation of policies to improve the lives of children in the foster care system, and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood follows on National Foster Care Month, established more than 20 years ago to bring foster care issues to the forefront of public consciousness; to highlight the importance of permanency for every child; and to recognize the essential role that foster parents, social workers, and advocates have in the lives of children in foster care throughout the United States; and WHEREAS, all children deserve a safe, loving, and permanent home, and WHEREAS, children of minority races and ethnicities are more likely to stay in the foster care system for longer periods of time and are less likely to be reunited with their biological families, and WHEREAS, the primary goal of the foster care system is to ensure the safety and well- being of children while working to provide a safe, loving, and permanent home for each child; now, therefore: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section I. That this Council designates May 2016 Foster Care Month in Lakewood, Ohio. Section 2. That the Clerk of Council be and is hereby authorized to spread a copy of this resolution upon the minutes of this meeting. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberation of Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Adopted: 1 r ,r 2� 2, 1(; Approved: R + ID MAYOR