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Friends in Foster Care
So, Your Child Wants to Be Friends With a Kid in Foster Care… School has started and your child has come home talking about another kid in class. As you begin to quiz your child about this new friend, you start to suspect the new kid is in foster care. Your child...
Businesses Help Vulnerable Kids in Indiana
In the fast-paced world of profits, losses and competition, the commonly held belief is that the government, faith and family can help foster children, but not the business world. Indiana Kids Belong (IKB) is privileged to have a front row seat to a still-unfolding...
Building the Berry Family
Kenny and I always knew we were going to adopt one day. By Lydia Berry I had spent years browsing the Louisiana Heart Gallery watching videos from America's Kids Belong of each child and reading their bios. After many discussions, prayers, and a huge leap of faith,...
Let the Pimps Have the Tough Kids
“The pimps will take them.” That line hit me like a punch to my gut. I was talking with a child welfare worker in a west-coast county. She explained when kids age out of foster care at 18, they are given a housing stipend of $1,000 a month that basically...
Cameras Rolling Just in the Nick of Time
“While we were filming 10 of Kentucky’s kids, a caseworker who was there received a notice that no other children could be removed from the facilities. Had that message gotten to him 1 hour earlier, the child he brought would not have been able to come. That same child told us it was one of his best days and it reminded him of Easter!”
Turning Cares into Prayers
Pray continually. Really? How? By Brian Mavis, AKB President “A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.” - Phillips Brooks ”Everything that one turns in the direction of God is a prayer.” - St. Ignatius Loyola “Pray...
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