What does it mean to be a Friend of Mountain Circle

• Friends of Mountain Circle was developed as a support organization, designed to promote the Mountain Circle name, our services and to provide financial assistance.

• Friends of Mountain Circle support children and want to increase the community's awareness of their needs. • Friends of Mountain Circle are individuals, families, organizations and businesses that are proud to be associated with our Agency and what we do.

• Friends of Mountain Circle can promote our Agency's image in the community by lending their name as well as their support in public relations and fund raising campaigns.

• If you, as an individual, family, organization or business would like to join Friends of Mountain Circle, please contact the Executive Director for more information on how to help OR print out this form and fax to (530) 284-7111.

What will Donations be used for?

When making a donation, you can specifically request how you want your donation money used. If you just donate to the Agency it can be used for a variety of services and much needed items.

Such as:

* Restarting the Therapy in the Wilderness Program.

* Pay for medical, dental & vision services that are not covered by Medi-Cal.

* Buy much needed computers & equipment for our offices.

* Starting new programs to serve our foster children's needs.

What is Mountain Circle?

Mountain Circle is a private nonprofit corporation, 501(c)(3), incorporated in July 1985 for fostering healthy family relationships. Mainly Mountain Circle is a foster family agency, meaning that we recruit families to be foster families. We then contract with surrounding counties to place foster children in these homes.

Mountain Circle is also a licensed adoption agency. We received our license in February 2001. This means that when foster children are freed for adoption, Mountain Circle does the adoption home study, files all the legal paperwork and finalizes the adoption.

Mountain Circle is licensed to run a non-public school which serves foster children and community children. These children are severally emotionally disturbed (SED) who need specialized and therapeutic teaching approaches.

The ratio of teachers to students is 1:3. Mountain Circle also has experience in providing a visitation program to the counties. This means that we supervise visits between birth parents and foster children not placed in the agency. We then send a report to the placing agency.