Learn about Foster Care

May is Foster Care Month

If you’d like to find about what it’s like to become a foster or adoptive parent, mentor, or respite care giver, please call 1-855-MICHKIDS. Or, you can also see pictures and brief stories about children hoping for forever families at www.mare.org (Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange). Select one and keep them in your prayers. For more information, contact our Parish Associate for Foster Adoptive Families Partnerships, Rev. Dr. Kate Thoresen at katethoresen@fpcbirmingham.org

HOW ELSE CAN YOU HELP AT THIS TIME? ​Foster Care Donations—New Items Only
Due to our limited storage space here, we cannot receive more donations of used items at this time. However, we are still taking new items that can be passed along right away when an infant or child goes into foster care. These Care Kits are picked up by the social worker and taken directly to the new foster parent when the child arrives in their home. For infants and toddlers (your choice of size and gender): diapers, wipes, ointment, onesies in various sizes, 2 sleeper outfits, baby body wash, no tears shampoo, baby formula and 6 bottles, baby cereal and infant food, receiving blanket.

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"Redefining Normal"
​by Justin and Alexis Black

​Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat the Odds and Found Healing, Happiness and Love is a new book written by two people who were part of the foster care system.  In their stark and often shocking story, Alexis and Justin reveal how two people brutalized in childhood managed to defy the odds, get healthy, and build a new life together. Guided by hope and a sense of God’s purpose, as well as a desire to help others who have similarly suffered, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their past, thereby breaking the cycle of generational violence and neglect. Once you’ve read "Redefining Normal" you will never perceive the plight of foster youth as an abstract statistic again. ​