Actress Lucy Liu joins celebration of National Adoption Day SATURDAY --

 

		County of Los Angeles DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES   425 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, California  90020 (213) 351-5602
Board of Supervisors GLORIA MOLINA First District YVONNE B. BURKE Second District ZEV YAROSLAVSKY Third District DON KNABE Fourth District MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH Fifth District   PATRICIA S. PLOEHN, LCSW Director

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                   

November 13, 2008

 

Contact:  Louise Grasmehr or Stu Riskin

                 DCFS Office of Public Affairs

                 (213) 351-5886, (818) 625-3720 (day of)

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

Actress Lucy Liu Joins Los Angeles County Celebration of National Adoption Saturday  Adoptions of 200 Children to be Completed on Saturday, November 15^th

 

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) will co-host the 10^th annual "Adoption Saturday" with 200 children adopted into permanent families.  A news conference will be held on November 15, 2008, at 8:30 a.m. in the first floor conference room of the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court, 201 Centre Plaza Drive in Monterey Park.  Speakers at the event include DCFS Director Patricia S. Ploehn, Presiding Children's Court Judge Michael Nash, actress and UNICEF ambassador Lucy Liu and dignitaries from other organizations including the Children's Law Center and the Alliance for Children's Rights.

 

Los Angeles County founded "Adoption Saturday" which led to the creation of National Adoption Day.  Since "Adoption Saturday" began 10 years ago, more than 10,000 adoptions have been completed.  On November 15^th, Judge Michael Nash and approximately 15 judicial officers will volunteer their time to finalize almost 200 adoptions.  They will be joined by dozens of pro bono law firms and their attorneys representing the adoptive families. 

 

This event is made possible each year through the collaboration of DCFS, the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and Public Counsel Law Center.

 

For more information about adopting through Los Angeles County, please call 1-888-811-1121, or log on to the DCFS website at www.lacdcfs.org and click on to the adoptions link at the top of the page.

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Established in 1984, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services is the public agency charged with ensuring that children grow up safe, physically and emotionally healthy, educated and in permanent homes.  DCFS works to ensure that all children have a connection to family, friends, schools and neighborhoods and provides services to children and their families when they are at-risk due to actual and potential child abuse, abandonment, neglect or exploitation.  With an annual budget of over $1.7 billion and a diverse staff of more than 7,000 employees, DCFS serves children and families through 18 offices located throughout Los Angeles County including Los Angeles, Lancaster, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley and the South Bay area.