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Brandy’s passion for helping people with medical needs and disabilities inspired her to become a licensed foster parent for medically fragile children.
Amanda recently helped two beautiful boys who were placed with her return home with their mother. She continues to help the mom out with their daily needs and to provide for the boys.
Jan has been a consistent, positive support for the child placed in her home. She is the type of person and foster parent who leaves you thinking to yourself, "I sure wish we had more Jans in this worl
Christopher and Samantha accepted their first placement in May 2021. The child had a lot of behavior outbursts at first, many of which lasted for 6 hours or more. Nighttime
Tony and Sondra have made an impact on the lives of children who have entered their home. Their first long- term placement was that of two nonverbal toddlers with significant trauma.
Alysha and Terry have had the goal of keeping siblings together from Day 1 and have gone above and beyond to do so. Ten months after taking in 2 brothers, they welcomed the third sibling into t