Making a Meaningful Contribution: The Benefits of Donating New Bags to Foster Children For children and youth placed in foster care, life can be confusing and uncertain. The transition can be overwhelming, characterized by fear, bewilderment, and insecurity. Uprooted from their known surroundings, they typically find themselves in foster homes...
I have spent my entire adult life to this point training and educating myself in Child welfare, trauma, and the foster care system. I don’t know if I would call myself an expert yet, but I’m working on it. The foster care system is complicated. It’s messy and most of the...
We had 16 Foster children through our home in two and a half years. We had ages newborn to 18. And still, each and every time a child arrived with nothing, or with items shoved into a black garbage bag, we still stood in disbelief.
I am No Ordinary Liz. That’s how I introduce myself, because my story is one that is almost too extraordinary to believe. But the lessons I learned along the way, the tools I used to help me survive, are ones that can help people understand the critical point we are...
I had no idea....I thought I knew about how the foster care system worked and I believed that the system would automatically work to protect an innocent child. When my first precious 16 month old orphan (for lack of a better word) entered my life on Sunday, September 5th, I...
My foster care journey started during the pandemic. Everything felt so awful at the time that we decided we were going to help make it better. Our first placement was a brother 4yo and sister 18 months old. We picked them up from our foster care agency and were given...
