Addie Sheek - Thornwell - Building Tomorrow's Families

3 Things foster care is and is not

Foster care is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Depending on your experience or history with foster care, you might…

Recently we hosted our second annual Support to Succeed foster care conference. Over 100 adults and almost as many children came together at First…

I’ve been fortunate to go to Haiti twice. My first trip to Haiti was with a medical team a few months after the devastating earthquake…

In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote that humans all have certain needs, and those can be arranged in order of importance. He said that…

Fun fact: My first career was in EMS. I worked as an EMT and Paramedic for 5 years in New York and Michigan before…

This song has been stuck in my head for the past month. Somewhere around the 25th time I listened to the song on Spotify, I…

Foster care is often uncomfortable. Kids are uncomfortable when they first meet us because they are unsure who we are and where they…

As I’ve been thinking about how to share the message of foster care, I started to think about classic passages and stories from the Bible…

Recently our foster care team had the opportunity to enjoy a fun evening with some of our foster families at Pump It Up in Greenville…