What Happens When You Adopt a Family at Christmas
What Happens When You Adopt a Family at Christmas You’ve seen a list like this before: Boy, Age 6. Likes superheroes and football. Size 6. Girl, Age 4. Likes dolls and coloring. Size 4T. Mom, age 27. Needs new slippers and towels. Size large Baby Girl, 6 months. Size […]
How Centering Pregnancy Has Transformed How Our Teen Moms Receive Maternal Care
How Centering Pregnancy Has Transformed How Our Teen Moms Receive Maternal Care For our young expectant moms, medical care is not something that they have always been familiar with. Many of the young women that come into our shelter are familiar with long wait lines at free clinics, lack […]
How Good Shepherd’s Pregnancy & Parenting Support Program Keeps Kids Out of Foster Care
Though Foster Care may be our biggest program, our other programs are designed to do something that may seem radical: keep children out of our biggest program. Our Maternity Shelter and Pregnancy & Parenting Support Program exist partly to help strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect, supporting the […]
Why Fostering Might Be For You
Why Fostering Might Be For You Deciding to take the first step in becoming a foster parent can be an incredible tough decision. Maybe you’ve been dreaming about it for years, maybe it’s been a “when the time is right” thought. Maybe, even, you’ve seen something on TV (This […]