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School Teachers, Foster Care and COVID-19
A School Teacher Introduced Me to Foster Care By Krista Petty, Faith Sphere Manager, America's Kids Belong Unless someone jogs my memory, I can’t name a single family or kid involved in foster care from my childhood…or even through college. It’s not because everything...
Covid-19 Crisis Impact
7 Ways Covid-19 Crisis Impacts Foster Kids/Care – They’re All Bad By Brian Mavis, President, America's Kids Belong, & Elle Flowers, AKB Social Media Manager Covid-19 most negatively impacts the vulnerable. The virus hurts our elderly loved ones the most....
What Do You Need?
What Do You Need? There's a harsh and heart-breaking reality in working with children and youth from foster care. Adverse childhood experiences harm the developing child and it often shows up through confusing or negative behaviors. According to the National Child...
Award Winning. Dream Making.
AKB & Dream Makers Project Receive 2019 Adoption Excellence Award The Adoption Excellence Awards were presented to 12 recipients at a ceremony November 12th in Washington, DC. The awards recognize the extraordinary contributions made supporting positive permanency...
Mom with a Phone Call
I Became a Mom with a Phone Call I became a mom with a phone call. ‘We have an emergency placement for a 3-week old baby boy. Can we drop him off in an hour?’ Foster care is weird like that. Your life looks one way then an hour later it’s completely different. The...
Language of Play
The Language of Kids is PLAY After filming over 1,000 children available for adoption, America's Kids Belong has learned a thing or two about working with kids. One thing is for sure: the language of kids is PLAY! At all our I Belong Project™ shoots, trained...
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