Foster Care Data Submission
…all forms of placement and state custody, such as unlicensed/primary kinship care, foster care, shelter care, group home care, residential treatment care, independent living, runaway and missing children, and trial…
National Foster Care Initiative Symposium
…foster care experts, government officials, organization and church leaders and foster care alumni. The day was designed essentially as a 9-hour video shoot, capturing short TED-style talks that will be…
Three Reasons You Might Be Having Trouble Engaging Churches in Foster Care
…or church leader doesn’t “get it.” We as foster care advocates feel thwarted in our genuine efforts to find foster and adoptive families for kids. We sincerely want to make…
ONE Can Be a Really Big Number When it Comes to Foster Care
…intensive which featured 5 adults who either spent significant time in foster care or experienced the difficult realities that kids in foster care experience. It was one of the most…
When Foster Care Advocates Invade Someone Else’s Bubble
…someone else’s “bubble” without their permission. There is a relatively new reality in Christian foster care that has developed over the past several years. In many areas in multiple states,…
When It’s Time to Let the Mullet Go: Knowing Better and Doing Better in Foster Care
…Nearly every one of us entered the foster care world naively. We were convinced of a lot of things. From the moment we make the very first phone call to…