The respite home will serve parents who are raising children with serious emotional and behavioral problems. Skilled treatment foster parents will provide both planned and crisis respite to help stabilize children and provide a break for their parents.

"Often, children with serious behavioral issues are taken into the foster care system because their biological parents do not have the support and resources to deal with their outbursts or other behaviors. They become exhausted or just give up.  The same thing then happens to foster parents who try to raise the child, resulting in these children being bounced from one foster home to another," stated Jim Seymour, Executive Director of Catholic Community Services (CCS).  

"We believe that, with the right support, biological and foster parents would be able to care for these children long term and help them become responsible adults able to contribute their gifts to society.  The Respite Home will play an essential role in our efforts to assure these children a chance of success at school, at home and in the community," he said.

For more information visit CCS on the web at www.ccswv.org.