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Junho Im and Christine Chang first fostered, and then adopted siblings Kayla and Rayna. Their family also includes the couple's younger biological child Lana.Entering foster care is hard. What if you were in a household unfamiliar with your language or culture? That’s a reality for some Asian American foster children. An effort is underway to recruit more Asian Americans to open up their homes. We spoke to families who answered the call.
Chou is part of an in-demand cohort in Southern California: Asian American foster parents with the cultural know-how to care for Asian American children. The parents come from a range of backgrounds. What they all share is a love of kids, and the desire to provide comfort through a tough time, where they've been taken from everyone and everything they've ever known.About 20 years ago, Ivy Chou worked as a costume designer on a play in L.A. about a mother and child caught up in the child welfare system. Moved by the harrowing story, she vowed to foster or adopt when she got older and married.
Like many of the foster parents, Chou is able to keep working — these days it's a remote job in hospitality management — while receiving a monthly payment for the child's expenses. The base rate is about $1,000 and goes up based on the intensiveness of the child's needs. The Santa Marias say it’s different with millennials like them. Since signing up for a training through KFAM more than two years ago, the couple have fostered four children: one baby and three teenagers.
One day the Korean-born Im was listening to Korean-language radio when an ad about KFAM's foster care initiative came on. He attended a training session in Korean, and the next time brought Chang with him to an English-language session.One of them, a 2-year-old, stayed with them as the child's Chinese-born parents dealt with immigration authorities. But the problems resolved within three months and the child returned home.
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