by Cathy | Apr 27, 2016 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
At Building Families for Children, we know that children can get hurt and in trouble if they don’t listen to those in authority, particularly during a potentially dangerous situation. So we reached out to Courtney Wiggins-Lloyd, a straight-talking social worker on a...
by Cathy | Feb 22, 2016 | Community of Hope
BALTIMORE, Feb. 18, 2016 – A celebration in Baltimore’s Patterson Park neighborhood kicked off the “Community of Hope,” a collaborative effort to provide a safe place for parents to raise their children. The effort is modeled after others that Casey Family...
by Cathy | Feb 3, 2016 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
By the time AJ was referred to us, it was clear that this teenage boy faced difficulty trusting anyone. AJ’s biological parents abandoned him when he was two. An aunt and uncle gave him up when he was seven. Over the next nine years, he bounced in and out of a dozen...
by Cathy | Feb 3, 2016 | Mother's Day, Safe Families for Children
A ‘host mom’ tells a story … Socks, a simple word that conjures up such powerful memories. He was seven years old and homeless. The day we picked him up, to host him for the next few weeks, we stopped at Target on the way home. I asked him, “Do you want or need...
by Cathy | Jan 14, 2016 | Mother's Day, Safe Families for Children
My Family and I decided to do a different type of “hosting” in our home; one that would help a pregnant young woman who initially was not sure if she wanted to carry her baby to term. We are happy that we were able to help the young woman. She’s thrilled that she had...