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Thank You Rebekah Children's Services
I can sum up my experience with social workers in the field as a foster mom with the phrase “when time permits.” I was literally told...


To my children's new adults, new school, and new community
The Dept of Social Services expects foster families to treat the traumatized by ignoring the trauma. They don't tell us about the...


Goodbye Babies
I don't know if I will ever see you again. I hope so. Someday, I'm sure you will ask your caretaker about your life story. I packed...


A lesson in service
To be in the right place at the right time takes an intrepid spirit- you have to be ready to follow life in unexpected directions....


Keeping siblings together
Picture this: You get a call for a sibling pair and tell the coordinator you were only planning to take in one child. They inform you...


Survival is Not Enough
What I knew: -I love children. Like, I LOVE spending my days and sleepless nights telling a little human that they are so very loved -I...


Our Home is no Longer our Home
We can't come home and go through our routines, because our home is no longer our home. Tonight was the first time my bio son and I just...


Paving the path to a brighter future in partnership with our community resources
In collaboration with Open Mind School, we started a resource sharing center where foster families can come check out books, puzzles, and...


Foster the Foster Family: Identifying the gap in support
“The tragedy right now isn’t them going or staying, the tragedy is that we had such high hopes for what we could give and what that would...


Foster Love
To my future child, Today my mind is running wild thinking about you. I am thinking about where you are tonight, I am wondering what...
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