Sunshine Girl On A Rainy Day

In 2025, my hope is that each of us continue to move forward to make a positive difference, regardless of obstacles: ^ I've posted the b...

As we move forward as foster care youth and alumni advocates into this uncertain New Year, there are both challenges and opportunities ahead...

Link to more photos. Wednesday, January 15, 2025 marked the groundbreaking of FosterHub's future Transitional Housing and Training Cente...

Link to more photos .  Along with some acrostics: E xcellent at making legos. D emon Slayer fan. W ants to go skating with Grandpa Nathan an...

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 weathe...

  Link to more photos . Edward's birthday gift Edward making LEGOs Frannie and Carly William: "I can chew my hair now!" Ginny ...

 

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