April 24, 2020
As a relatively new foster parent, I’ve tried to learn everything I can about the child welfare system, the various court hearings and timelines for each, […]
March 30, 2020
Across the nation, we are all currently wrestling with responding to the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the many different impacts it has made on our […]
January 15, 2020
The Role of the Foster Parent Liaison If you’ve been fostering for any time at all, you know that there are a lot of questions that […]
January 6, 2020
I Thought I Couldn’t Let Them Go and Then I Did I am Tonya: a wife to Charlie and a mother to Bailey and Brittany, now […]
December 1, 2019
We are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. Thanksgiving has just passed and Christmas decorations dominate every store. There is something about this […]
November 11, 2019
Every foster parent remembers their first placement call. The anxiety. The excitement. Today on #FosterFridayLive, Martha, a Placement Coordinator for SC DSS Upstate Foster Family and Licensing […]
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 […]
July 16, 2019
It’s easy to feel alone in the world of foster care, but when you reach out to others in the child welfare system, you’ll find that […]
July 9, 2019
So often when we talk about “the system,” we don’t have good things to say. We call it broken and failing and maybe we’ve even called […]
July 7, 2019
The foster care system can seem like a mystery from the outside. There are a lot of myths about who the children in foster care are […]
May 2, 2017
The kids and I were at the pool when the first call came in. Only 48 hours earlier, we had jumped for joy as we received […]