Volunteers help social worker throw party for foster kids

From Mass.-

Thanks to a dedicated social worker, the desire of a local parishioner to help needy children and the generosity of local organizations, about 100 foster children will receive gift-wrapped presents and pictures with Santa during a large holiday party tomorrow.

Parishioners of Calvary Episcopal Church and volunteers spent much of last night wrapping those gifts, with the party slated for the Danvers Masonic Temple tomorrow afternoon.

For the past decade, Carla King, a social worker, recruiter and liaison for foster families for the state Department of Children and Families, has thrown a Christmas party for foster children on the North Shore. It's King's job to find families willing to open their homes to children who have suffered abuse or neglect, and who have been removed from the homes of their parents.

For years, King, with help from a crew of friends, arranged the Christmas party, but she wasn't sure she was up to the task of shopping, wrapping, finding a place to store the toys and arranging the party again after this year.

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