Unique Program Connects Foster Kids to Family | The Afro-American Newspapers

It's the questions that haunt them: Why was I abandoned? Was I not lovable enough? Who are my biological parents? And now, for the 600 children in its foster care program, the Prince George's County Department of Social Services (DSS) has implemented a new program that will help some of these children find answers.

"It's May or June and our kids are graduating and the only person going to their graduation was their social worker," said Judith C. Wilson, acting deputy director of Prince George's DSS. "We just said this is not right; we have got to do something about this."

The Finding Family program is an initiative based on a project set forth by Kevin Campbell, founder of the Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness.

The program's aim is to maintain or reestablish healthy, safe contacts with family