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Ziggy Advocates for Foster Families During National Foster Care Month in May

Cleveland, OH - (April 5, 2006) - The affable and adorable animation appearance Ziggy is the 2006 spokes appearance for the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) and National Foster Care Month (NFCM) in May.

Cleveland, OH -- The affable and adorable animation appearance Ziggy is the 2006 spokes appearance for the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) and National Foster Care Month (NFCM) in May.

Ziggy will advice NFPA and NFCM admit the efforts of advance parents above the nation and advance acquaintance about the ever-growing charge for advance parents.

“Ziggy has consistently been a affable messenger, bringing humans calm in a caring and allusive way. I can anticipate of no bulletin added caring or added allusive than one which encourages bringing calm advance parents with so abundant adulation to accord and accouchement so in charge of a admiring family.” said Tom Wilson, artist for Ziggy.

Ziggy turns 35 years old this summer. “Over the years and in its own way, Ziggy’s ancestors has aswell developed through acceptance and while his may be annihilation but ordinary, I’ve begin that admiring families can appear in all shapes and sizes,” Wilson added. “I’m actual blessed that NFPA has absitively to accept Ziggy as their spokes appearance for National Foster Care Month. This is absolutely a ancestors I can abide with.”    

“We are aflame to accept Ziggy on axle because he is such a absolute American icon,” said Karen Jorgenson, NFPA controlling director. “Ziggy is consistently bent to acclimate the storm until things get bigger and that is the affectionate of attitude that we ambition to back to our accouchement and adolescence active in advance care. At the aforementioned time, he is a appearance that alcove out with a allowance duke if one is needed, just like our committed advance parents.”

Wilson will advance the chat about National Foster Care Month through a alternation of Ziggy banana panels premiering in May. Wilson will aswell aggregation up with the Andrews McMeel Foundation to present Ziggy’s Gift, a scholarship for a college-bound advance adolescent who is crumbling out of the system.

Ziggy aboriginal appeared in newspapers in June, 1971. Tom Wilson of Cleveland, Ohio, has fatigued and accounting Ziggy back 1987, afterwards the retirement of his father, the chief Tom Wilson, who aboriginal created Ziggy as a greeting agenda character. Distributed through Universal Press Syndicate, a analysis of Andrews McMeel Universal, Ziggy is appear in added than 600 newspapers, extensive 75 actor readers daily, and maintains an online attendance through Ziggy.com and uclick.com. More than 20 Ziggy animation accumulating books and annual calendars accept been appear by Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC.

In accession to his plan with the NFPA, Ziggy's alarming bulletin extends to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, area he serves as the full-time official spokes character, and to World Food Day, area Wilson creates an anniversary banana console to abutment the cause. In 2003, Wilson launched Character Matters (www.charactermatters.net) as a business committed to developing world-class characters for companies and brands. Licensees for Ziggy cover Planet Sox, Top Heavy, Casa D' Oro, Russ Berrie & Co., Sara Max, Mighty Fine, Arrow International and BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited, which is ablution the DVD of the “Ziggy's Gift.” The activated anniversary appropriate becoming an Emmy Award in its alone TV advertisement and afresh won The Family Magazine Group’s Family Choice Award and the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval.”

Based in the Seattle area, the NFPA was accustomed in 1972 as a abutment arrangement for advance parents and strives to advance the accompaniment of adolescent abundance programs in the United States. The Association works to accommodate advance parents and abeyant candidates with the advice they charge to advance the lives of advance accouchement and urges bounded and civic legislators to accomplish adolescent abundance a top government priority. Additionally, the Association puts on conferences, conventions, and training sessions to bigger adapt advance parents. Recently, the NFPA has sponsored efforts to accommodate abatement for advance families afflicted by the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

National Foster Care Month was accustomed to accession accessible acquaintance of the charge for added humans who are accommodating to change a lifetime for accouchement and adolescence in advance care. NFCM is a affiliation of Casey Family Programs; Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services; Black Administrators in Child Welfare; Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Child Welfare League of America; Connect for Kids; Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative; APHSA/National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators; National Association of Social Workers; National Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA); National Foster Care Coalition; National Foster Parent Association; and the National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning Hunter College School of Social Work, a Service of the Children’s Bureau. For added information, appointment the National Foster Month Partnership site: www.fostercaremonth.org.

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