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8 Words of Encouragement for You This Holiday Season

To close out the year, we asked each member of our National team to share a simple word of encouragement that has been on their heart. Today we’d love to share each of their responses…

Jami KaebDecember 17, 2022

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In Defense of Foster Care Workers

Seeing and experiencing brokenness can lead us to pursue positive, God-directed change in or around us, or it can far too easily bring about misguided anger, frustration, or cause us to become jaded or stuck.

Jami KaebFebruary 1, 2021

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Episode 107: Saying Goodbye: Navigating Reunification as a Foster Parent

Saying goodbye to the child you've been caring for is one of the most heart-wrenching times as a foster parent. Every foster parent knows to prepare for this time, but that doesn't make the reality…

Jami KaebNovember 16, 2020

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Building Trust and Growing Together

Foster care is full of good and hard, ups and downs, joys and sorrows. It's a place where you hold more than one emotion at a time, and often those feelings and emotions oppose one…

Jillian KellenbergerSeptember 17, 2020

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Changing Perspective in Foster Care

I think about all of the times where I’m struggling to believe something good about myself, and the moment that someone else validates for me that they are with me and that I have value…

Jillian KellenbergerSeptember 3, 2020

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Foster Parents Don’t Get the Final Say

Today, I don’t like foster care. I don’t like seeing the faults of the system. It was never the final or complete solution meant to overcome abuse and neglect, but it’s what we have to…

Jillian KellenbergerAugust 17, 2020

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An Amazing Truth to Combat This Foster Care Lie

There is a way back to the joy and eagerness, and we have a God who has shown us how. We can fight against the enemy and against our sin. We can stand on the…

Holly GnuseAugust 6, 2020

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When You’re Struggling to See Through the Hard in Foster Care

The hard in foster care is real. As much as we all work to try and create clarity and play on the same team, it sometimes feels like the conflict will never end.

Jillian KellenbergerJanuary 6, 2020