Why the holidays can be hard and how to make them better
Many youth in foster care experience the holidays as stressful. Foster care alum Jamerika Haynes-Lewis shares her perspective and offers six tips for making youth feel included.
Adopting teens
How parents can build trust: what 3 foster and adoptive families have found
How can you demonstrate your trustworthiness to a teen who has experienced foster care? Here’s advice from three sets of foster and adoptive parents.
A “nerve-racking” choice on their minds for two decades, then taking the leap to adopt
Discover Nikki and Mike’s greatest joys and the biggest misconception about adoption from foster care.
Adoptive families highlight the need for adopting teens in new public service advertisements
Real parents and youth share about their adoption journeys—In. Their. Own. Words.
Foster and adoptive mom of 15 years: “Teens are great!”
Melissa is the adoptive mother of three children and continues to foster many more. Here’s her advice.
Parents adopt 6 siblings from foster care: “The love is forever”
Discover how adopting from foster care has brought more love and fulfillment to this family than they could have imagined.