If you’ve been a part of the foster care world for any amount of time you’ve heard the exhaustively crazy list of “what if” stories, you’ve been cautiously warned about the “wild kiddos”, and you’ve definitely seen the looks from well-meaning community members who don’t quite understand what, how, or why your family is doing […]
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Being a foster parent is easily one of the most challenging and difficult, yet exhilarating and rewarding, yet bittersweet roles on the planet. By definition foster means to promote the growth or development of, to encourage; to bring up, to raise, to care for or to cherish. This year’s foster parent of the year has
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The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, which means that this match was likely meant to be. CHOICES was already scheduling gift deliveries from donors for our adopt a family program. It was late afternoon when one of our therapists inquired about adding a family to the list who was starting our home-based
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When you answer the call to become a foster parent, it is more than loving and caring for a child. While these qualities are considered most important there are many other layers to providing stability and connection. Unless you have fostered you may not realize the monumental task of organizing schedules of youth in your
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While operations look a bit different right now, CHOICES is still committed to celebrating May as National Foster Care Month. We would like to acknowledge the commitment our foster parents have to their kids year round, but especially during this time. Like any parent they have had to shift routine and schedules to help with
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This quarter we would like to recognize Amanda Sheidler for Living the Mission of CHOICES. Amanda supports the agency at nearly every internal and external event. Her calm and caring demeanor helps her build relationships with families and staff! Amanda strengths are key to her success, she is organized, a great listener, trustworthy, and keeps
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The world of fostering is easily one of the most exciting, yet exhausting, yet exhilarating experiences we all get to be a part of because of the sacrifices and work our parent’s put in to changing lives of young people. Foster, by definition, means to encourage or promote the development of something – typically something
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When Monte and Jesse met they both had a strong desire to be parents. Knowing that biologically they could not have children they weighed many options. After being together for 10 years they were ready to start their family, and they knew there were plenty of children who needed one. They researched extensively and after
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This year we had the great pleasure of presenting our first ever Foster Parent of the Year award at our annual Voices for Kids Breakfast. With it being our first award we wanted to make the moment extra special and surprise our foster parent recipient. Our first recipient of this award is Nadene Sullins who
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The dedicated team at CHOICES is in the middle of their 3rd Annual School supply drive with a lofty goal, to provide 100 kids school supplies in their programs. We know we can’t provide everything on each child’s list…but we also know the donations we collect do make a difference. We were blessed to receive a
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