Haven Foster Care Blog
Adoption and The Nursery: How preparing our nursery helped me be hopeful, be expectant and be ready
Adoption and The Nursery: How preparing our nursery helped me be hopeful, be expectant and be ready By Kate Helmberger If you ask any prospective adoptive parent what the hardest part of the adoption journey is for them, many times you’ll hear the same answer: the...
This Is Us: Episode 10 – Goodbyes lead to great opportunities
This is Us: Episode 10 - Goodbyes lead to great opportunities It was time for Deja to return home. Her mom had completed what the county was requiring her to. Again, it’s important to remember that it’s a television show and it’s a bit more complicated then just...
This Is Us: Episode 2 Recap – Jumping into the Foster Care World
This Is Us: Episode 2 Recap - Jumping into the Foster Care World As many of you saw last week, This Is Us took the official leap into the foster care world when Randall and Beth welcomed into their home a 12 year old girl, Deja. The family didn’t receive any...
This Is Us: Episode 1 Recap – Bringing America Closer to Adoption and Foster Care
This is Us: Episode 1 Recap - Bringing America Closer to Adoption and Foster Care Just like many other adoption agencies out there, Haven staff loved the first season of This Is Us, and the second season premiere was no different. We have fallen in love with this...
How Opioid Use Affects Haven Foster Care
written by Patti Cruz It is impossible to read the news, listen to the radio or be online without hearing a story about a family impacted by the opioid epidemic. At Haven, some of the women and men that we work with everyday through our foster care and adoption...
Haven Foster Care Picnic – A Great Success
Written by Patti Cruz When we started our foster care program, we all had dreams for the program. Some of us dreamed of the first day we would get a placement, others dreamed about the first time a child feels safe and happy with one of our families, and for me, my...
My Testimony – A Birthmother’s Story
Written by: Yanice, Biological Parent To all those who have made The Choice, My name is Yanice. I am a single mother. I have a wonderful little girl who has blessed my life in so many ways. After foolish actions on my behalf, I found out I pregnant again. I was sick...
Letting Go – A Journey From Infertility to Adoption
Written by: Liz, Adoptive Mom Adoption, for me, has been a lesson in letting go. The letting go began about a year ago. It was the middle of the night, and I was slumped on my bathroom floor, crying quietly to myself, trying not to wake my husband who was sleeping a...
How Adoptive Parents Are Like NFL Players
Written by: Meghann Chiappa, Adoptive Parent Case Manager and Director of Foster Care This is my favorite time of year—the start of fall and all things pumpkin, apple picking, sleeping with the windows open, saying goodbye to my bathing suit, and saying hello to the...
A Courageous Jump: One Woman’s Leap Into Parenting Through Adoption
Written by: Caeli Duke A few weeks after TJ and I got home from Texas, I was sharing our story to a Physician’s Assistant. It is a story I love to tell everyone and anyone. I tell family, friends and even strangers all the details of our journey to become a family....