Fostering Blog
August 20, 2020
We are born advocates. From the first time we cry, we are advocating for ourselves. From that point on we learn how to ask for help […]
December 9, 2019
No one wants to be forgotten. No one wants to be left behind. Katie once struggled as a teen in foster care to see her potential. […]
November 4, 2019
Jolli entered foster care as a teen and her whole life changed. She was separated from the only world that she had ever known. She felt […]
December 5, 2018
Every year when Thanksgiving gives way to Christmas time, we start to hear bells at stores. Trees appear with dangling Christmas ornaments that double as shopping […]
July 9, 2018
In my seven years experience living in foster care and the two years I spent working for DSS as a case manager, I came across some […]
June 25, 2018
As someone who was placed in foster care (as a child) and also worked placing children in foster care (as a case worker in my young […]
November 13, 2017
The key to a child being successful in foster care is stability. I know this because I was in foster care for much of my childhood. […]
November 6, 2017
Our time with Kaden* was a gift. He had the biggest smile I had ever seen and he used it often. He was completely at peace […]
September 6, 2017
She came to us a wide-eyed, petite four-year-old, swimming in clothes four times too big for her. Her previous foster family sent her with just a […]
September 5, 2017
One of my favorite things about fall has nothing to do with the cooler weather, the changing leaves, or the apples. Of course I enjoy all […]
May 16, 2017
People become foster parents for a variety of reasons. In Another Place at the Table, Kathy Harrison writes that her career as a foster parent began […]
May 9, 2017
Who Will Cry for the Little Boy? Who will cry for the little boy? Lost and all alone. Who will cry for the little boy? Abandoned […]