Foster Care & Adoption
Our JourneyFor anyone out there who has considered adoption through foster care, you know the resources available to you are pretty scant. The process is daunting, time consuming, and invasive, but ultimately (I hope!) worth it. These posts contain our family’s personal take on growing your family through foster-to-adopt exclusively through state agencies. I try my best to post here monthly but sometimes it’s impossible. If you’re following these posts, please subscribe to the mailing list and help bring awareness through sharing them socially. My goal is to help spread awareness in this process, and that won’t happen without all of your help. Thank you all so much for the wonderful feedback. Every positive affirmation helps drive us forward!
Foster Care – Our First Placement Story
Well, it’s been quite a while since I posted about our foster care journey, partially because literally nothing was happening, and partly because I wanted to take the first few weeks of our first placement for us as a family before writing about it to...
Adoption Costs and Why We Chose to Foster
Have you ever stopped to think about why adoption is so expensive? I have. This post breaks it down for you and explains our choice to grow our family through adopting from foster care.
Foster Care – Following the Need
Why foster care? Why this hard path? For us the answer is simple. If you want to help, you follow the need. It’s never the easy road …
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about a Home Study
Ever wondered why adoption is such a time consuming process? The home study is the reason – the process to prove you’re a fit caregiver is an arduous one.
Foster Care Pre-Service Training
Shedding a little light on what to expect with foster care pre-service training in Cuyahoga County.
Foster Care – It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint
Part one of our personal journey into the foster care system of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.