Your Inspiring Families

Here’s a quick look at the lives you’ve touched.

No family is immune to brokenness.

Thank you for helping write their redemption story.

The holiday season may be over, but it’s always the season to show love to a child or family facing challenges.

Your generous donations help vulnerable children find stability, keep families together in times of crisis, and provide a home and community for families fleeing danger.

And when people of faith and compassion come together to help children and families thrive, we all thrive.

Investing in proactive, proven strategies, we help families grow stronger for children today and tomorrow. When we invest in families before it’s too late—before teens age out of foster care, before a child is placed in institutional care, before a family comes apart—that’s when we see real change.

The happiest day of Ebony’s life.

The day her daughter saw her mom graduate, thanks to kind people like you.

At 17, Ebony and her newborn daughter were homeless. “I was a kid with a kid,” she says about when she came into foster care. Without parents in the picture, she needed caring, trusted adults to help guide her next steps toward her future.

Ebony’s case manager at Bethany introduced her to YouthBuild at the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation. YouthBuild is a nationwide movement that invests in young adults ages 16-24 and helps them pursue their education, prepare for future careers, and grow into community leaders.

The day Ebony graduated with her GED was one of the proudest of her life. Her friends and mentors were there, cheering her on. But more important to Ebony was that her daughter was there to see what she had accomplished. She now has a foundation to give her family a future.

“YouthBuild changed my life,” she says. “When you walk in these doors, you’ll walk out with something completely different.”

As kinship care becomes more common, foster parents still play an important role

We need you now more than ever! If I’m searching for family members for a child entering foster care and exhaust a child’s family system, finding no kin who can care for them, how vulnerable is that child?

Sometimes people think, “Other people in this child’s life should step up.” But if I can’t identify anybody who could possibly step up, this is a child who needs you more than ever.

Think of how hard and how hopeless this is for a child, to literally have no one in the world who can care for them. It would be a dream for every child to be with family. But the data doesn’t tell me we can do it 100% of the time. While family finding does increase our capacity to serve a diverse group of children in foster care, it doesn’t work for every case. So, yes, we absolutely need foster parents.

Your Inspiring Families

Your Inspiring Families

Here’s a quick look at the lives you’ve touched.

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No family is immune to brokenness.

Thank you for helping write their redemption story.

“When you walk in these doors, you’ll walk out with something completely different.”

— Ebony, YouthBuild participant

The happiest day of Ebony’s life.

The day her daughter saw her mom graduate, thanks to kind people like you.

Do you still need me?

Do you still need me?

As kinship care becomes more common, foster parents still play an important role

Thank you for showing the love of Jesus to others

Because of you, families don’t have to walk alone.

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