The Masons, a foster family in Orcutt, have created a home for three children since 2023. Every placement was meant to be temporary, they would tell themselves. The goal of Angels Foster Care — the private agency they work with, which provides care for infants and toddlers in Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo — is, first and foremost, to provide a loving home for kids in tumultuous situations and eventually reunite them with their birth family.
But that does not lessen the emotional impact.
Josh Mason said that if someone had asked him three years ago whether he could see himself being a foster parent, he would have laughed. They have four biological children. On top of that, “I didn’t think we had it in us,” he said during the agency’s fundraising luncheon at Glen Annie Golf Club on April 30.
