Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

 

Reading this insight about how perfectionism is an inner wound that begins in childhood reminded me of my favorite quote since college by H....

This quote captures part of the heart of advocacy: Creating the things we wished existed. T hroughout the ongoing history of Ohio foster car...

It’s interesting to me to think about how my personal timeline intersected with our national one. In 1999, the year I met the man who would ...

Something I’ve been pondering lately is how foster care advocacy work can intersect with both primary trauma and secondary traumatic stress....

Patricia McCollum (Ms. Pat) was an Ohio child welfare trainer and a foster and adoptive parent. She fostered over 100 children, and was the ...

Negative foster care statistics do not come from a vacuum.  They are positively and negatively influenced by systemic factors.  This chart ...

The Columbus State Scholar Network is in my heart this week. This beautiful, loving community has lost three irreplaceable people in one yea...

It is raining in my heart today... The state of Ohio has lost three foster care alumni this year: In March, we lost Alexis Smith . In June, ...

Those of us who "age out" of foster care, kinship care, residential, and disrupted adoptive placements aren't just trying to b...

  Click to enlarge Link to handout . Link to tree swing diagram , which reflects the legislative process.

 This needs to be talked about more often: Click to enlarge

We spent three hours there.  Link to more photos . 

Loved my time spent with Nikki Chinn painting rocks on Friday, August 2, 2024.  When the Ohio foster care youth and alumni movement first st...

We do our work with vision.  And we do our work with hope.  We who are foster care advocates will have days of disappointment. We will weath...

 

  Sweet and savory surprise from my husband.  The necklace is from the kiddos... And then, a second surprise arrived from Carly and the kidd...