With the Lismore Lantern Parade being held this Saturday, June 21, MacKillop Family Services say they will again participate, with their team carrying a set of lanterns in the parade to raise awareness about the need for foster carers in the area.
MacKillop Family Services offer out of home care programs (including foster, kinship and residential care), disability services, youth support services and education services.
Regional manager, Jen Jones, says, ‘We are walking to show our appreciation of foster carers who give so much by opening their homes to vulnerable children in the local community’.
She is welcoming everyone to their stall to ask questions around foster care.
‘At any given time there are close to 14,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in NSW’, she says.
‘We welcome foster carers from diverse backgrounds’.
For more info, call 1300 791 677 or visit www.mackillop.org.au.
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