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.…
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? 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…
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 outcomes for children…
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.…
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…
Change Who Waits By Brian Mavis, President, America’s Kids Belong When I was working at LifeBridge Christian Church, and I got a phone call from a recruiter in child welfare who said, “I’d like to meet with you about child…
The Most Foster Friendly Main Street in America In October, Mayor Ken Moore of Franklin, Tennessee declared that his town had the Most Foster Friendly Main Street in America. This was after 40 Franklin businesses signed on to become Tennessee…
AKB Faith Resources Now in Spanish! By Krista Petty, Faith Sphere Manager, AKB On average, 20% of children in foster care are Hispanic. In an effort to better empower leaders, America’s Kids Belong has translated our top faith sphere resources…
Family First Prevention Services Act: What is it? For many children, entering foster care is a traumatic event…just as traumatic (or more so) than the situation or home environment that led to removal in the first place. Signed into law…
