So yesterday I was meeting with the head of recruitment from our county (Santa Cruz). We share our very fun and unique name Anastasia. I really love spending time with her and coming up with ways to get more families to love on these awesome children. While we were chatting I had a vision for these teens in foster care and i thought I would share it with you.
We were talking about how intimidating it is to think about taking in a teenager. We both agreed that when we started this process we were intimidated but once you get to know them they aren't all that bad. In fact some of them are really fun to hang out with. So onto my dream. What if we had so many homes willing to take in teens that we could literally match them according to their interests. Like if you were to take our house for example, they may place a young man that loved to surf. Or a young lady that loves to dance. For children who have been through so much and have such a hard time trusting it would mean the world to walk into a home where you could relate on some level to your foster parent(s).
Instead of teens being hard to place my dream is that we would have so many homes we could do some awesome matchmaking :)
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