This guide offers resources and information to help the Muslim community alleviate the current orphan care crisis.
The following sections on this website include:
- The FCNA & AMJA Guidelines
- Guidelines on Foster Care in America
- Guidelines on Legal Guardianship
- Guidelines on Mental Health Issues
- Institutions in America
Why does this guide Matter in Addressing Orphan Care?
- Provides brief and general information before taking the journey of being a foster parent or a legal guardian.
- Promotes the idea of caring for orphans and abandoned children.
- Provides a map serves as a visual display and guides your community in working to connect and build relationships with services.
- Guides you on how to access and refer to resources available in your local community, helping foster care families and guardians find support and assistance.
- Develops a handout that will help you “map” your community and the network of services that you need to call upon and work with to provide a caring for children are in need of foster parents and save home.
Why do we need to publish such an extensive awareness brochure?
- To raise awareness of the need of having more licensed Muslim foster families and legal guardians.
- Raise awareness of the great need for a communal efforts to establish a compassionate community.
- Encourage the Masajids/mosques, Islamic centers and the Muslim leaders, lawyers, scholars, Imams and activists be actively engaged in this project.