LOS ANGELES — A faith-based group formed to encourage more black families to become involved in the foster care system observed National Foster Care Month with a webinar highlighting the need for more foster parents.

Nancy Harris, executive director of Faith Foster Families Network, said the webinar was held to start the conversation about the importance of becoming a foster parent and how people can play a part in providing resources to children, youth and families.

Beavers took part in the webinar because she wanted to let people know how fulfilling it is to foster a child and to stress the importance for people, especially black people, to become foster parents.

The Dixons, the natural parents of four children ages 11, 14, 15, and 16, became foster parents for “various reasons,” but especially after becoming aware of the staggering number of black children in the system.

“It’s very important for black people to become foster parents so we can become a village again for our children,” Dixon said.