by Jim McCaffrey | Feb 27, 2017 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services, Mother's Day
After completing treatment at a Group Home for victims of child sex trafficking, 15-year-old Alexis was placed with Melonie, one of our CHOSEN therapeutic foster families. Melonie had a personal interest in working with youth who have survived sex trafficking so it...
by Jim McCaffrey | Sep 26, 2016 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
Did you know that kids who have been in foster care are less likely to graduate high school and more likely to be incarcerated, experience homelessness, and have their own children taken into foster care? Since our founding nearly 100 years ago, Building Families has...
by Jim McCaffrey | Apr 28, 2016 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services, Mother's Day
CATONSVILLE, Md.—Every Mother’s Day, Robin Reynolds receives cards, calls and texts from many of the 14 children whom she has been a foster mom to during the past 14 years. “They say ‘Love you, Ma,’” said Robin with a smile. “I say, ‘I love you, too.’” Whether sold...
by Jim McCaffrey | Apr 28, 2016 | CHOSEN | Treatment Foster Care & Clinical Services
COLUMBIA, Md.—Our foster parents are taught to be “coaches, not wardens,” so that they can effectively work with the at-risk children who we place in their care. They should also realize that foster children, after years of abuse and neglect, suffer from...
by Jim McCaffrey | 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 Jim McCaffrey | 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...
