September 23, 2019
Have you ever heard that foster care “takes a village?” It truly does! We are all in this crazy journey together, my friends. We all occasionally […]
Fostering Blog
September 18, 2019
I loved Jamie Sandefer’s keepsake book, Love You from Right Here, so much that I wanted to learn how she was inspired to write it. Below […]
September 12, 2019
A few months ago, I spoke at Fostering Hope, a recruiting event hosted by Care2Foster, in the Midlands about the impact of fostering on my biological […]
September 12, 2019
We’ve all been to baby showers and seen a pregnant mom open up boxes of tiny baby clothes and blankets. We’ve seen all the pre-made registry […]
September 9, 2019
Your relationships with your brothers and sisters are the often the longest-lasting you will ever have. Many sibling groups, already devastated by the trauma of entering […]
September 9, 2019
How do you explain foster care to a child who has never experienced it? Or who has never even had to consider what life may be […]
September 9, 2019
Dhestiny’s daughter Ava was placed in foster care for seven months. It was the worst time of her life. She wrote this letter to the foster […]
September 6, 2019
Navigating relationships with your foster kiddos bio family is important. We hear this repeatedly in our trainings and from our case workers, but sometimes it still […]
September 5, 2019
Experience Life in Limbo® An interactive role-play workshop about what it’s like to be in foster care Have you ever wondered what it would be like […]
August 29, 2019
Approximately one in every 10 foster children has been the victim of physical abuse, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau. There’s the […]
August 26, 2019
Foster care has brought a lot of kids into our home. So many in fact, that we went out and bought a minivan (a story for […]
August 26, 2019
Navigating the Challenges of Marriage as Foster and Adoptive Parents Parenting is a lot of work- adoptive and foster parenting is A LOT of work. How […]