Family is the Best Gift
Being blessed with a healthy family is no small thing—because the benefits are far-reaching. When you’ve been raised in a strong family, it’s easy to overlook the advantages you’ve enjoyed. But fostering or adopting a child from a troubled family often brings them...
Help At-Risk Youth in Foster Care During National Adoption Month
Over 117,000 children and youth across the country are in foster care waiting for a forever family. Many are teenagers at risk of aging out of foster care without permanent family connections. In 2020, more than 20 percent of those waiting to be adopted were teens,...
Helping Children With Trauma at Halloween
Trauma is all too common for many foster children whose lives have already been rocked by anger, confusion, and separation. These kids are often scared of the dark, and freaked out by thunderstorms, and shaken by loud voices and visions of monsters under their bed. At...
Baby Safety Month: How Foster Care Keeps Babies Safe
Providing foster care for a newborn is labor-intensive and demanding, but there’s great satisfaction in understanding the safety foster homes provide to vulnerable infants. Some of the youngest children in foster care have only been outside their mother’s womb for a...
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents It’s that time of year again – families are starting to get ready for summer to end and school to begin. Preparing to switch gears from the lazy, unstructured days of summer to the more defined routine of the school year can...
Before You Foster…
Parenting requires a great deal of time and energy. Having a healthy marriage is foundational for parenting in general, but even more so for foster parenting. Couples should do careful self-assessment before becoming foster parents. Evaluate your communication and...
Celebrating Foster Care Awareness
Celebrating Foster Care Awareness 8 ways to get involved May was National Foster Care Awareness Month in the United States, where there are close to 400,000 children in the system at any given time. More than 100,000 of them need adoptive families. While there are...
Fostering Families
Building and maintaining constructive, positive relationships with your foster child’s biological family requires hard work, patience, grace, and understanding. But the long-term results will be worth it. Your head tells you that cultivating these connections is the...
Navigating Those Painful Goodbyes
Part of foster care is the inevitable reality that you’ll have to say goodbye to a child you have cared for. It’s never easy. Never. Whether the child has been in your care for a weekend, a month, several months, or even years, these farewells are usually some...Gallery
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