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National Foster Care Awareness Month

Lee Marshall

Founder / CEO Kids to Love Foundation M May is the month to recognize the crisis of foster care: National Foster Care Awareness Month. There are a lot of statistics to make people pay attention to the need. I think it’s more important you hear the stories:

A newborn baby, born 8 weeks early, who will be released from the hospital to a foster family. The silver lining is that he will be in the same home as his big brother.

A 12-year-old boy whose parents died and was going to be adopted by his uncle, until his uncle also passed away.

A teen-age girl who had been adopted but whose adoptive parents changed their minds, forcing her back into foster care.

Kids to Love has been able to make a difference in the lives of each of these children, along with thousands more. If your heart is moved to help, I invite you to visit our website kidstolove.org. You’ll see amazing youth on the “Meet Our Kids” page. And if you’ve ever thought about becoming a foster parent, we can help with that too! All the information you need is under the tab titled “Who We Are.”

Our mission at Kids to Love is simple: meet the needs of foster children. There’s no better month than May to help us do just that.