🌍 Global Foster Care News: Rising Racism and Safety Concerns in England Foster care leaders in England are raising alarms about a troubling rise in racism and far-right hostility affecting both foster families and children in care. Minority foster...
🌱 Let Them Grow Last month’s live training, Let Them Grow: Empowering Foster and Adoptive Kids with Trust and Choice, is now available as an online course on the Chaplain Ted Network. This trauma-informed training introduces the “Let Them” Theory —...
🏡 More Kids, Fewer Strangers: A Shift Toward Kinship in Foster Care “Right now in Colorado there are 978 children placed with relatives or close friends — but 1,407 living with traditional foster-families they didn’t already know. A growing number...
Letting go of comparison. Chaplainted.org/grow
💛 Help a Teen Girl Feel Confident and Warm This Winter A 16-year-old girl in foster care is in need of new clothing to help her feel comfortable and confident as the weather gets cooler. She is very petite and currently doesn’t have properly fittin...
Understanding Our Impact Numbers: Why They Matter When we share our work supporting children in foster care, you often see us include three key numbers: Cities Impacted, Opportunities to Stabilize Children, and Training Hours Delivered. But what do t...
🧩 Better Matching: The Simple Answer to a Complicated Debate There’s a national debate about whether foster parents should be required to affirm LGBTQ+ identities. Some say it protects youth from rejection. Others say it forces faith-based families...
💖 Arapaho Charter Students Spread Smiles with Care Bags for Foster Youth Students from Arapaho Charter High School have come together to create 45 thoughtful care bags for children entering foster care on the Wind River Reservation. Each bag is fil...
Parenting: Set boundaries early instead of waiting until you need them. Avoid your own irritation.
💙 Putnam County Foster Parents & Relative Caregivers — your voice matters! I’m Chaplain Ted Stackpole, appointed to represent Putnam County Government on the Circuit 7 Community Alliance. I am collecting feedback to better understand the needs...
