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5 Ways to Help Children in Foster Care – Without Fostering
Create Welcome Boxes – These are shoebox sized gifts given to children when they enter the system. They often include non-perishable snacks, age-appropriate toys, notebooks, crayons, a toothbrush…
Launch Boxes – These are usually laundry baskets filled with items a young man or woman can use to start their adult lives after aging out of care.
Respite – Take in children for an hour to a week, just to give their resource families a break. This is a way to be hands-on without the full-time commitment.
Gift Cards – This could be for the adults who need that extra boost of caffeine to keep up with the kids, or to a store where clothes, school supplies, or other needs can be met.
Donate – There are non-profits in every state with the mission to serve our kids in care. Your donations of money and tangible need items help them in this mission.
This is just the beginning! Check out the Every Child Oregon website for more information.
I have a list of non-profits serving kids in care all over the United States. Click here for a free copy. -
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More Than We Remember
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The Way It Should Be Release Week!
I can’t even believe it. The Way It Should Be releases into the wilds of the world on Tuesday, February 2!
Thank you to Marylin Furumasu of M F Literary Works for this image It’s hard to explain the excitement and anxiety all wrapped up in this one crazed author’s brain. I mean, this book, these three hundred and some pages, they carry with them a bit of who I am. And now, all those thoughts and images are out there in black and white for the world to examine.
This book is particularly important to me. Inside the cover you’ll find my passions: faith, family, fiction (of course), and foster care.
I hope Tiff, Zara, and Eve make a lasting impression on your hearts.
Christina
After years of estrangement, the lives of Zara Mahoney and her twin sister, Eve, are suddenly and completely intertwined again. Eve’s troubled lifestyle causes the state to take custody of her two children and contact Zara and her husband, asking them to consider foster care. Newlywed Zara thought she’d finally been given a fresh start and feels wholly unprepared to care for a niece and nephew whose existence she wasn’t even aware of.
Meanwhile, Eve may have a real chance to start over this time with the help of Tiff Bradley, who’s dedicated to helping women everyone else has given up on after facing a heartbreaking tragedy in her own family.
Over the course of one summer, all three women’s hearts and lives hang in the balance as Eve desperately works toward a new life. Can they redefine their expectations of how life should be to find the hope they–and those they love–so desperately need?
