Ashley and Brett hoped to grow their family through adoption. What they didn't expect was how Treatment Foster Care would provide the support they needed to help an extraordinary 11-year-old heal, thrive and find his forever home. Read how one family’s journey transformed all of their lives, and how compassionate foster families can help children write new stories of hope.
For children impacted by severe trauma, trust doesn’t come easy. But when it does, everything changes. Follow Theresa’s professional journey inside Treatment Foster Care. As a licensed professional counselor and case manager, she’s learned that healing begins not with fixing, but with showing up, staying present and helping a child feel wanted.
Stephanie is a mother of three grown biological children, an IT professional and a rural Missourian. But for the girls she’s fostered through Catholic Charities Children and Family Support service line ministry Good Shepherd, Stephanie is much more: a steady presence. A safe place. The woman she herself needed as a child.
For Liz and Bill, fostering through Catholic Charities ministry Marygrove, a Children and Family Support service line partner of Good Shepherd, has meant opening their hearts, reuniting siblings and learning to meet children right where they are. Along the way, they’ve witnessed powerful transformations, not only in their foster children, but in themselves, too.
