La Cuna a place of safety and comfort for Latino babies - San Diego foster care

““It’s a milestone for us,” said Humphreys, who founded La Cuna in 2003 and, together with a group of concerned individuals, began working on the licensing requirement to become a foster family agency. “Some people used to say we wouldn’t even place 12 children in one year, and now, less than three years later, we have placed 50.”

La Cuna, which means “the cradle,” in Spanish, was established to address the shortage of quality foster homes serving Latino babies and toddlers. Its mission is “to develop programs that allow foster infants to grow up healthy and happy, and to evaluate the results and create best practices that will improve the lives of Hispanic foster infants throughout California.”

Humphreys said that Latino children face critical conditions in San Diego County’s foster care system.”

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