A Family's Journey Towards Restoration In the spring of 2024, I received a call from a foster care supervisor asking if I had any openings in my schedule. The worker had just received a case and she wanted me to work with the parents. I met the parents at a family...
Building Lifelong Relationships through Mentorship When I joined the Youth In Transition team, my role was to interact with unmatched youth. That’s when I met Samantha. I told her that I would meet with her twice a month. At the time, Samantha was a high school...
In the PACT program, I had the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of my clients. My client was frustrated that she was stuck in the same old visitation room at MDDHS for every visit. She wondered why she didn’t have the right to take her children out...
When coming in as a new worker, it can indeed be challenging to pick up a case that someone else has previously handled. The family and child already developed a relationship and trust with the previous case worker, and you are an entirely new person to them. Honestly...
Overcoming Obstacles to Family Reunification My very first case with Adoption Option Inc. was in August 2020 working with parents of two young children both under age 2. In my first meeting with them dad expressed his distrust and frustration with “the system”...
