When children cannot live with their parents due to challenging situations, kinship care becomes more than a safety net—it is a lifeline. Kinship care is one alternative to foster care that instills a stable environment and helps children maintain a sense of identity. This guide defines and … [Read more...]

  Let’s face it: bonding with a teen son or daughter is usually challenging for most parents, but it can be especially tough if your teenager was a teen before you adopted them into your family.  At our Children’s Home, residents are boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 18. Over the … [Read more...]

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...]