{"id":60309,"date":"2025-11-19T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:36:14","slug":"kern-county-highlights-need-for-adoptive-parents-during-awareness-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60309\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County highlights need for adoptive parents during awareness month"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) Philip Peters, District One Board of Supervisor, announced November as National Adoption Awareness Month alongside his team from the Department of Human Services. <\/p>\n

Cliff Taylor, program director for the Kern County Adoption Agency, emphasized the importance of adoption, stating, “In Kern County, we have over two thousand children within foster care. And many of these children will ultimately need a permanent, stable home.”<\/p>\n

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He also highlighted the critical role of adoptive parents, saying, “Today we especially want to honor the adoptive parents who are individuals who’ve opened their hearts and homes to children in need.”<\/p>\n

The board heard from foster parents Veronica and Modesto Ramos, who have adopted seven children, including their granddaughter.<\/p>\n

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Veronica Ramos shared, “We take it as saving lives. Because these children go through so much harm, you know, during their stay in their homes that they need some love. They need some support, and that’s where we come in as foster parents.”<\/p>\n

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Modesto Ramos encouraged more families to adopt, saying, “Your home will be blessed, your life will be blessed, and I can say that it’s been great in a home. We enjoy our children. We have a great time with them. The most beautiful thing is when you walk into the house, and they call you Papi.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) Philip Peters, District One Board of Supervisor, announced November as National Adoption Awareness Month alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-60309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}