Children's schooling should not be a means for the animal rights movement to spread their false propaganda. The Casey Family Program has been providing high-quality foster care for more than 34 years, through 24 offices in 14 states. When all the appropriate services to support family preservation is not enough to keep a child safe, an adequate plan for permanent connections through foster or adoptive care is a paramount goal. Seeking to make his case, Wexler cites an outdated statistic about sexual abuse among girls in foster care with The Casey Family Program. We want to clarify that the study was completed 15 years ago and reviewed only cases of children in two offices.
Child protection is always our first priority as caregivers.
We work diligently to screen prospective foster families, provide appropriate training and support to foster parents. In addition, we work to strengthen the relationship between children in foster care and their social workers and we have put in place standards and monitoring procedures to institute child safety protocols throughout our program. The public should be assured that we will continue to work on keeping children safe until we reach our goal of zero cases of reported abuse. I have signed their Initiative 713 petition and urge other compassionate and reasonable people to do the same. Animals caught generally starve to death or gnaw their legs off to escape.