Fostering Faithfully Director Collaborates with America's Kids Belong Podcast + Blog

The Fostering Faithfully Director has been busy collaborating with great nationwide foster care advocates at America’s Kids Belong! Our community is so special and she shares all about the history of founding Fostering Faithfully and her own fostering journey on their podcast: Listen here: https://americaskidsbelong.org/blog/how-to-foster-faithfully-through-generous-hospitality-with-abby-crooks/.

I tell foster parents, we've got to be looking for the miracles, and they're out there because where there's great love, you're going to get to experience miracles. And I tell foster parents, they get a front-row seat to those.”

– Abby Crooks, foster + adoptive parent, founder of Fostering Faithfully

In this episode, Abby shares her journey of fostering with her husband, the importance of community support, and why finding joy in small victories matters. She also emphasizes the need for kids in care to feel loved and supported along with self-care for foster parents, key messages from her book "Simply Available: Unfiltered Truths on the Generous Hospitality of a Foster Care Lifestyle"!

Listen now:

https://americaskidsbelong.org/lp/foster-friendly-pod/

#FosterFriendlyPodcast #FosterCare #FosterParenting #FosterFamilies

Before her podcast, she shared on the AKB blog about the rude awakening of parenting a child who has experienced trauma and how she coped and grew along her fostering and adoption journey.

Read more at America’s Kids Belong: https://americaskidsbelong.org/blog/scaling-the-new-demands-of-parenting-a-child-coming-from-trauma/.