FOSTER CARE SUCCESS STORY FULL
I am very happy and I am living a full and peaceful life. I have a stepson and two beautiful little babies. I met my now husband, who I have been with for 8 years. Since CFP I graduated high school earning myself 16 credits in one year trying to make up for all the credits lost from moving. Since 1981, over 50,000 foster youth have received information, advice, support or funding from Foster Care to Success, helping them to transition from care to adulthood through education. I think about them still to this day and my family and I are so appreciative they were in my life. I definitely did not learn that from my mother. When I parent my kids I am able to reprimand them and love them at the same time. Words can’t express what they have done for me. The CFP staff showed me trust, safety and normalcy. I was responsible for my young siblings but didn’t know what it was to be responsible for myself. My mother never let me go anywhere or do normal teenage things. I was shown love and taught what a real home is supposed to feel like.
These women can take a lot of credit for the person I am today. Hanna, Colleen and Diane taught me so many things that go deeper than I can ever explain. I really lucked out with the staff at the Bennington House. I pushed buttons and didn’t always do what I was supposed to, but I realized you don’t get tossed aside for bad behavior, I was held responsible for my actions, and I faced the consequences and did better next time. Living at a CFP residence was the first time I saw unconditional love outside of my family. My husband laughs at me now and calls me the “lover of all people”! Going to group therapy with 15 or more girls who didn’t always get along taught me two huge life lessons: first, not to judge people you don’t know until you get to know them and secondly, you are not going to like everyone, but that is life. When I paid attention I gained a lot, I am a first class grocery shopper thanks to my practice making lists and menus and shopping for the house.
FOSTER CARE SUCCESS STORY TRIAL
It didn’t and in fact, it was a lot of trial and error. I used to think they were so lame and that when I got older it would just come naturally.
I wish I paid more attention to the independent living books. Independent living skills were a primary focus of the program. Other homes I have been in just want you to behave to make it easier on staff and not because you should behave. CFP means opportunity to me, it is a place to grow. I was placed in one of Communities for People’s (CFP) staffed residential programs at the age of 15. However, while we are celebrate these new families, there are still hundreds of others still waiting in foster care, so more people willing to adopt and become foster parents are needed.I came from a home with an alcoholic parent so my life was very unstable and I never knew what to expect, I was either being badly mistreated or being sent away to live somewhere else. She adds, “This great platform, your voice, this huge voice, to find homes for children who have been waiting for so long.”Ĭommunities Connected for Kids have been so dedicated to this effort and now we are seeing the results of their labor of love. “Teenage brothers who found their Forever Family by a woman who decided to take a chance on them,” Christina says. Sarah was exhausted and was using alcohol to help her relax and sleep at night.
And Mum was afraid to put any limits on Emma’s behaviour for fear of her response. The teen boys were also featured on Forever Family and now their new headline is: Emma was aggressive and violent toward her mum Sarah and little brother Toby. His story is such a wonderful, beautiful success story,” Christina is happy to say, “He had some speech and language problems that he is overcoming.”īrothers Daniel and Zachary were adopted through another resource we have in the community called the Heart Gallery. “He found his forever home, again, a direct result of Forever Family. He was so sweet and cheerful when Forever Family shot his segment. “Recently her segment was re-aired, and somebody in the community passed it along to a woman who was a former teacher of this child,” Christina told us.Ĭhristina tells us about another foster child, “During the spring, we had a little boy with special needs Amarion who's also adopted.”
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