You adopted your child when they were a baby or toddler, so they have no memory of it. At some point, your child will discover they were adopted—but when is the right time? And what’s the right way to do it? Over the years at the Children’s Home, we’ve seen many approaches to talking about … [Read more...]

Last month, we shared our home’s process of accepting referrals from local and in-state DHR, families impacted by failed adoptions, and other families struggling with maintaining (biological or adoptive) children in their homes. Today, we offer a closer look into how we serve children we admit as … [Read more...]

This blog explains where the children in our care come from. We do not seek out or recruit Alabama Free Will Baptist Children’s Home residents. Instead, we accept new residents through a referral process.  While we do not require payment to accept a child, if the family can, we expect them to … [Read more...]

On average, a child in foster care will live in eight or more different homes before they land in a permanent placement or age out of the system (Source). Thus, children in foster care often endure constant, tumultuous change, moving from house to house and from one family to the next.  Many of … [Read more...]

Celebrating Christmas with your foster child for the first time is a blessing.  However, Christmas is different for foster kids than it is for children who live with their biological family or have a consistent home dynamic throughout their lives. As a foster parent, you must be aware of these … [Read more...]