I knew that I wanted to adopt one day, but had little interest or knowledge of foster care. I heard the dramatized stories about the foster care system from tv and thought that it would be too difficult, especially as a single person. When I became a teacher, I loved...
Our family has been a volunteer foster care respite family for about 5 years. What was once unknown and unfamiliar to us, has now become something we consider very dear to our heart. The act of opening our home to children who have no place to go. While there’s been...
When we first started fostering we only knew one other foster family. We were nervous about what was in store for our family and apprehensive about if we could actually do it. Saying yes to a call from a teen mom and her newborn felt like the biggest leap of...
Our family decided to go through the process of becoming a foster family a while ago, and we were fortunate enough to have two sweet foster children live with us for a year. We got a call in August of 2019 asking if we would take an 8 month old...
As foster parents know all too well, the vast majority of foster children that come to our homes come with little to no belongings, and the belongings that they do sometimes bring usually get transported with them in a trash bag.Recently, we said yes to a teenager, and she came...
