Dear Family Member,

Since 1997 Guardians of Love Foster Family Agency, Inc. (GOLFFA) has been providing services to children in need of foster family home placement.  It is our mission to provide safe, nurturing, therapeutic certified family homes where children can receive protection from abuse, maltreatment, economic exploitation, malnutrition and /or any form of unsafe environment.  GOLFFA provides a comprehensive range of support service to the children, youth, parents and certified foster parents in an effort to prevent the need for multiple placements/replacements and to bring about reunification with biological families, adoption or emancipation.

GOLFFA is licensed by the State of California Community Care Licensing Division and at this time maintain service contracts with Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to provide therapeutic foster home placements for male and female children ranging in age from newborn to 17 ½ years; sibling groups and adolescents who would otherwise be more difficult to place.  We support community based placements, therefore we provide certified foster family homes for children to minimize the disruptions and losses in these children’s lives.

GOLFFA is committed to not only the children we serve but also our certified foster family homes, and this is why we are now the licensed foster family agency that offers our certified foster family homes the highest stipend reimbursement rate in the county.  GOLFFA values our certified foster families and the contributions they make to our children on a daily basis.

The fact that (as of 2006) Los Angeles is home to the largest foster care system in the nation, accounting for an astounding 27,000 youth (102,000 in California), 1 in 10 foster care youth nationwide, GOLFFA is actively developing and implementing programs to strengthen and enhance the lives of the children in our agency.   GOLFFA partners with other agencies to increase the effectiveness and responsive of the children and communities in need.

GOLFFA staff have a passion for what we do.  We take a comprehensive and uncompromising position in delving deeper to issues and want our children and certified foster homes to emerge with new strength, commitment and direction.  We want to do the best we can…we want you to tell others about us….we want our children to be provided with the necessities and guidance needed to ensure that they make a smooth transition and become productive members of the community.

Thank you for joining the Guardians of Love Foster Family Agency family.

Sincerely,

Rev. Ralph E. Butler
Founder