#fostercareawareness

[onceuponafosterkid]

I moved in with my foster parents when I was 15. I don’t live with them anymore, but my apartment is five minutes away from their house and I still see them all the time. I don’t always vocalize to my foster mom when I’m struggling because I know she has a house full of kids to worry about, and I don’t want to burden her. I swear she has this sixth sense though, because whenever I start spiraling it’s like she knows. If it’s been a few days since we’ve talked, she’ll call me and check on me, or invite me over for dinner. She’s even driven over here to pick me up to run errands with them and get lunch, just us. Sometimes I look through our texts and it’s impossible to not see how much she loves me, just from those texts. The other day I finally told her and my foster dad a little bit about what I’ve been struggling with, and they just listened to me vent, and they reassured me, and gave me advice. I’m not her blood, but she knows me better than anyone and I think that’s how she always knows, even without me telling her. I don’t know how she does it, but I’m so grateful for both of them. I know that no matter how messy my life gets, I can always come home to them, no questions asked. This is what foster care is supposed to be. I moved out almost three years ago, but they still save my seat at the dinner table. They don’t adopt kids, they never wanted us to feel like some of us were better than others, and they can’t take all of us. In the 39 years they’ve been foster parents, they’ve raised over 300 kids, but they make sure that I know I will always have a place in their lives. So when I think about what love looks like, that’s what I picture, them.

[africstyleinitiatives]

Facebook memories..... from one of my previous kids in foster care 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 #fostercare #adoption #foster #fosterparents #fosterfamily #fosterlove #fostermom #thisisfostercare #fostercareawareness #fosteryouth #fosteringsaveslives #fostering #adoptionjourney #family #nonprofit #fostertoadopt #love #adopt #adoptdontshop #fostercareadoption #fosterkids #adoptionislove #children #fosterchildren #adoptionrocks #fosterparent #giveback #fosterparenting #community #adoptiveparents https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2-MO3JUv_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hollymarlow]

Not long til my book reading and signing event at Aylesbury Library! Really looking forward to it! It feels appropriate that it falls during the overlap of #familyliteracyweek and #nationalstorytellingweek 📚 . #adoptionawareness #adoption #fostercare #fostercareawareness #kinshipcare #kinshipcareawareness #adoptionuk #adoptionsupport #therapeuticparenting #therapeuticparent #socialworker #socialwork #adoptionresources #adoptionstories #adoptioncommunity #kinshipcommunity #fostering #fosterparent #fosterfamily #teachingresources #socialworkresources #socialworkreadinglist #library #librarian #adoptionreadinglist #fostercareresources #fostercarereadinglist #books https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnz_PPoMMgK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[official-mddtspeaks]

“ Surviving out of spite.”

[stormyfayethechristianrunaway]

The Good Lord called home my Mama, Mrs. Ardelia Cunningham Swanson, 25 years ago today. 🕊

In her 92+ years of life here on Earth, I give her honor of being a faithful daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother.

Also, she spent 40+ years of countless untold stories being a mother and grandmother to numerous children, from crying newborns to hardheaded teenagers.

Yeah, she was that woman in the neighborhood. 🏡

Her home was open to those whom God directed to her.

The one who, even the caseworkers showed up unannounced with a kid or two or three, for her care. 💞

Because they knew her home was safe and her hugs were warm and her kitchen table fed an army from that backyard garden.

So I'm asking my social media family and friends, in this closing month of May, for an hour or a day, to please change your profile photo or cover photo to represent Foster Care Awareness Month.

With Love Always, ❤️

#DaughterOfArdelia

May Is National Foster Care Month.

#NationalFosterCareMonth #FosterCareAwareness #FosterCareAdoption #FosterCare #FosterYouth #FosterKids #FosterChildren #FosterTeens #FosterSiblings #FosterParents #FosterFamilies #FosterMothers #FosterMoms #FosterFathers #FosterDads #FosterCareMonth #FosterCare

https://www.childwelfare.gov/fostercaremonth/

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[dreamgreatdreams]

absolutely ❤️ this thought. #Repost @finallyfamilyhomes with @get_repost ・・・ The trauma of going through foster care and never finding a family can fill a child with heartbreak, a sense of rejection, and hopelessness... They need to be shown that there's somewhere it's safe to be softened. Then they may just go out and do the same... Making the world a little less cruel and heartless for others Repost @randomactscolorado . Love you, praying for you @lrknost . . . . . . . #ahopeandafuture #lrknost #childhoodtrauma #childrenareourfuture #childadvocate #bethedifference #bethechange #finallyfamilyhomes #positivemessage #fostercare #agingout #agedout #fostercareawareness #fostercareawarenessmonth #fostercareadoption #hopeforthefuture #hopeheals #dojustice #orphancare #youthhomelessness (at Beaverton, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxsai-PBhfL/?igshid=f2dcqbkp1rh

[thetonycross]

‘As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen’ – Winnie the Pooh. Every child that comes to you in foster care has scars and baggage, it takes time, care, and a ton of love. Why not you? You’ll never regret it. . . . . . . #fostercare #fosterparents #fostermom #adoption #thisisfostercare #fostertoadopt #fostercareawareness #adoptionrocks #adoptionjourney #fosterlove #fosterfamily #adoptionislove #fosteringsaveslives #whynotyou #fosterflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMCtOvHGFn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xjkgdkh5hh8w

[morganvegawrite]

♥︎ books featuring foster care ♥︎ . if you know me or have read my book SLEEPING AROUND, you may know I’ve always wanted to foster. I’ve wanted to be a safe, stable person and provide a safe, stable home for children going through the most unsafe, unstable experiences. . so read a book featuring foster care today. two of my faves are WATCH OVER ME by @nina_lacour and WHAT I CARRY by @jenlialongo. and of course, my book ♥︎ . #fostercare #fostercareawareness #yabooks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #indieauthor #indieauthorsofinstagram #indieauthors #indieauthorsunited #indieauthorsofig #indieauthorsbeseen #indieauthorsupport #selfpublishedauthor #selfpublished #selfpublish #selfpub #selfpublishing #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writing #writer #writersofig #authorsofinstagram #author #authorlife #authorssupportingauthors #authorcommunity #booklove #book #bookish (at Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnQv1yrjVe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[parentingpete]

I saw a “foster parents do it for the money” comment this morning. Fine. You know what, you’re right. The $0.64 per hour really makes the drama and the loss and the bottle washing and the driving all around and everything else totally worth it. It’s the money. Sure it is.

Here it is. My motivational #nationalfostercaremonth post.

Also, I got pooped on while writing this.

[tabrownwv]

#flashbackfriday to 2 years ago wearing my @chsofwv essential shirt we got for work 😁 #childwelfare #fostercare #fostercareawareness #adoption #adoptionagency https://www.instagram.com/p/CeERqurODoO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[onceuponafosterkid]

Every now and then I am reminded how hard it is being an adult foster youth. I’m only 21, I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. This week was really hard. I got sick on Monday while I was at work, but I have this fear of letting people down so I toughed it out. I got home and I had a fever of 103. I took some Tylenol but I can’t afford groceries right now so I don’t have any cold medicine or anything. I took Tuesday off of work thinking I needed a day to just recover. I mean, I’m working full time, taking three classes one of which is a two and half hour in person class twice a week after work so I thought maybe I was overdoing it right? But I’m pushing myself physically to avoid what’s going on mentally and yes I’m in therapy I know that’s not good but it’s what’s keeping me alive for right now. Anyway I go back to work on Wednesday but I have a cough and a headache and I just don’t feel great but I already took a day off I don’t want to make my boss mad. After work I take an at home Covid test my foster mom gave me and it’s negative, so I go to urgent care because day three of having a fever that’s now reached 103.5 and I don’t know what’s wrong. Urgent care does a Covid test that I know is going to be negative because I just took one, and they send me home. So if they sent me home I must just be overthinking this right? Maybe it’s not that bad. But I can’t work until the fever is gone and nothing is making the fever come down the cough is triggering my asthma so on Friday my foster mom takes me to the ER and there I find out I have pneumonia. They rehydrate me because I have been unable to keep anything down and sweating so much that water does nothing for me, and they give some antibiotics and I’m able to go home while they send meds to the pharmacy and finally I’m feeling like it’ll be okay. But the Walgreens they sent the meds to is closed on weekends, and I’m not supposed to wait until Monday so I call and ask them to send it to a different location which I find out halfway through Saturday the pharmacy is actually closed. So I call back again and ask them to send it down the street to Walmart but then they never call in the meds. So I ask my foster mom to call them for me and ask them to send the meds because it’s almost Sunday and I’m starting to feel like crap again and the fever is gone but I can’t breathe and my inhaler is expired and they were supposed to send a new one. She called and they said they would send them and she said she’d pick them up so I spent today cleaning in preparation for feeling better once I get my meds and once I’m done cleaning I sit on my floor and I start crying because I feel so freaking alone. Which is stupid because my foster mom has been taking care of me this whole time, sending me food and taking me to the ER but I can’t help but feel guilty because it’s not her job anymore to take care of me and she’s got a family at home, six kids counting on her but I don’t have anyone else to go to for help. I’m 21, I’m single, my bio family has left me again and it’s just been a really long week you know? It’s not like I have friends I can’t talk to, I lost them all when the assault at Wendy’s happened so I’m just sitting here fucking crying because I’m tired and it sounds very stupid but I’ve realized that it’s nobody’s job to help me. I’m in this alone and usually I can pretend that doesn’t hurt but not this week, not right now. But that’s just what happens when you age out. You’re alone unless you can find people and apparently I’m not very good at finding other people and I don’t know why. Anyway, I just needed a moment I guess. I feel like 12 year old me sitting outside my cottage at residential wondering if I’ll always be alone. I wish I could tell her the answer is no, but at this point in time I don’t have the answer she needs so for now I’m just crying with her.

[theadoptionoption]

Congratulations! . #Repost @foster4always --- Hasta La Vista Foster Care, I’ve been ADOPTED!!! We adopted Mikey on April 11th and feel so much relief and joy knowing that we’re his people. Adoption day photos to come later. #fostercare #fostercareawarenessmonth #fostercareawareness #fostercareadoption #fostercareadventures #lovemakesafamily #wearefamily #ohanameansfamily #adoption #adoptionjourney https://www.instagram.com/p/CdMKA5-Omv-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hollymarlow]

Lots of events coming up, and I'm still finalising the details for a few more. Let me know if you have an event coming up that you'd like me to speak at! Hollymarlow.com/events . #adoptionawareness #adoption #fostercare #fostercareawareness #kinshipcare #kinshipcareawareness #adoptionuk #adoptionsupport #therapeuticparenting #therapeuticparent #socialworker #socialwork #schoolsocialworker #adoptionresources #adoptionstories #adoptioncommunity #kinshipcommunity #fostering #fosterparent #fosterfamily #teachingresources #schoollibrarian #senco #socialworkresources #socialworkreadinglist #library #librarian #adoptionreadinglist #fostercareresources #fostercarereadinglist https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAjmfDsGxd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[official-mddtspeaks]

“ The cycle ends with me “

[stormyfayethechristianrunaway]

The Good Lord called home my Mama, Mrs. Ardelia Cunningham Swanson, 24 years ago today.

In her 92+ years of life here on Earth, I give her honor of being a faithful daughter, sister, friend, wife, and mother.

Also, she spent 40+ years of countless untold stories being a mother and grandmother to numerous children, from crying newborns to hardheaded teenagers.

Yeah, she was that woman in the neighborhood.

Her home was open to those whom God directed to her.

The one who, even the caseworkers showed up unannounced with a kid or two or three, for her care. 💞

Because they knew her home was safe and her hugs were warm and her kitchen table fed an army from that backyard garden.

So I'm asking my social media family and friends, in this closing month of May, for an hour or a day, to please change your profile photo or cover photo to represent Foster Care Awareness Month.

With Love Always,

#DaughterOfArdelia

May Is National Foster Care Month.

https://www.childwelfare.gov/fostercaremonth/

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[hellaboujie]

On today’s very special episode of TBT: 3 years ago this weekend is when I premiered the latest version of From Foster Care to Fabulous at the Red House Arts Center featuring original music, lyrics, and book by me! This updated version also features a fantastic four piece band and went on to play a successful run at FringeNYC in August of 2016. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this show! Photo by @genphotos . . . . #playwright #tbt #composer #lyricist #actor #musicalsmusicaltheatre #fostercare #fostercareawareness #fromfostercaretofabulous #redhousearts #newmusicals #orchestration #comedy #nyc #fringenyc #instagay #actorslife https://www.instagram.com/p/BqNkGAmBUsx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6lech42iu2m0