New Year’s Day
It’s January 1st. Maybe you’re cleaning up all your holiday decorations, vowing to get organized for the start of the new year. Maybe you’re reflecting back on the year that 2020 was, with a heavy heart. Maybe you’re setting some…
Category Foster Care
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,…
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…
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…
5 Ways the Church Can Impact Foster Care Right Now
5 Ways the Church Can Impact Foster Care Right Now By Krista Petty of America’s Kids Belong & Kristin Miller of Tennessee Kids Belong The health and economic implications of the COVID-19 crisis are rightfully at center stage right now,…
10 Ways COVID19 Affects Foster Care
10 More Ways the Coronavirus Affects Foster Care: Government Edition Background: You may have seen America’s Kids Belong post on “7 Ways COVID-19 Crisis Impacts Foster Kids/Care (and They’re All Bad).” That article focused on our number one priority: the…
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.…
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.…
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 outcomes for children…
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.…
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…