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HELPING FAMILIES MAKE A PERFECT MATCH (cover photo) By the time Romney Snyder was 18, her parents opened their home to a total of 86 foster children. She always knew she would follow in their footsteps and foster but something happened one day that made her think about becoming a forever family. A 7-year-old boy in a group home shared his dream with Synder that “someday somebody’s going to pick me.” She decided then that she would provide at least one child the permanency of a loving family through adoption.

Today Snyder is the mom to three adopted sons. This year she finalized adoption of her youngest son, Tyler, 16, who has Down Syndrome. “He’s a beast of an athlete,” Snyder says of the bright-eyed teenage acrobat. “Tyler has “Get-Down Syndrome because he will dance to any music whether or not we can hear it.” Many children with special needs in Riverside County are waiting for forever families.

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