Submitted Photo/CHRISTIE MASSEY
Because there are more than 18,000 children in foster care in Illinois and 241 of them currently living in Jefferson, Hamilton and Wayne counties, Jordan Bird and Kirsten Malone presented a new program, The Restore Network, in an information booth Sunday, June 1 at Central Christian Church to encourage people to attend a free seminar on how to participate in helping to find families for the massive number of children needing permanent homes. The conference, A Night of Pushing Back the Darkness, will be featured at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, in the Rolland W. Lewis Building of Veterans Park in Mount Vernon. There are numerous ways to assist other than adopting a child.
