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Raising awareness, supplies for foster youth By Blythe Alspaugh Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for SAFY, stuffs duffel bags full of necessities to be given to foster youth when they are placed in a foster home. Courtesy photo SIDNEY For National Foster Care Month, a local agency is working to set up foster youth for success. “Our goal as an agency is to provide a youth with a duffel bag every time they enter a home. What some people might not know is that, when a foster family receives a call that they’re getting a child coming into their home, sometimes they have no notice. They get the phone call, and then an hour later, the kid is there. They don’t have time to run out to WalMart and get certain supplies to help the youth feel comfortable,” Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for SAFY, said. ....
Collection event helps foster children Staff report SIDNEY – Specialized Alternatives for Family and Youth (SAFY) will have its first Rally Duffle Bag Drop Off event during Foster Care Awareness Month on May 13. “Not everyone can become a foster parent, but everyone can help in some way, shape or form,” said Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for the Sidney Division, which serves Champaign County in its designated region. “Stop by to either drop off supplies or help us fill duffle bags for local foster youth.” SAFY is a non-profit Foster Care Agency which licenses and supports foster parents and youth through this journey. SAFY has been serving Champaign County for more than 35 years. ....
Giving back to children in need By Blythe Alspaugh - [email protected] Last year, April Hoying created 52 Easter baskets to give to foster youth in the area with donations from area businesses and community members. She currently has a goal of 60 baskets and has 41 completed, but is at a standstill in donations. SIDNEY A Sidney mother is striving to brighten up Easter for foster children for the second year in a row. April Hoying works as a play advisor for Discovery Toys, and every year the company encourages their advisors to give back to their community around Easter in some way. Last year was Hoying’s first year participating, and she had come up with the idea to create Easter baskets to donate to foster youth after seeking advice from Sylvia Roop, a foster parent recruiter for SAFY. ....
Nothing short of a Christmas miracle By Blythe Alspaugh - [email protected] Sylvia Roop, of Celina, sorts presents she has organized for pick-up. Luke Gronneberg | Sidney Daily News SIDNEY Several local organizations helped make Christmas extra special this year for foster children in the area. “As a foster parent recruiter, I’m constantly out in the community talking with organizations, and networking, and things like that. When it comes to this I am currently looking at our lobby with all these gifts that I’m trying to put name tags on and organize, right it literally has brought me down to where I am getting teared up just thinking about how amazing our community has been,” Sylvia Roop, foster parent recruiter for SAFY, said. ....