| | https://michiganfosters.com/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:47:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://michiganfosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-pattern-original-round-small-32x32.png | | https://michiganfosters.com/ 32 32 Christmas Magic for Michigan Fosters https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/christmas-magic-for-michigan-fosters/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/christmas-magic-for-michigan-fosters/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:30:25 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=946 Christmas magic For Michigan Fosters.     We’re THRILLED to partner with Wellness Co. for our first-annual Christmas Magic for Michigan Fosters initiative to support foster families. This November, for 5 weeks we’ll give you 5 ways to make Christmas Magic.  While November is the month for Thanksgiving, we want to work ahead to show […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/christmas-magic-for-michigan-fosters/feed/ 0 Hispanic Heritage https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/hispanic-heritage/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/hispanic-heritage/#respond Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:45:40 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=942   As foster parents, we are often provided the unique opportunity to care for children outside our own race or cultural heritage. This opportunity also brings huge responsibility as we must prepare ourselves to better understand the challenges and successes of people whose lives look different from our own. Hispanic Heritage Month offers a more intentional way for us to bring this education to the forefront to celebrate […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/hispanic-heritage/feed/ 0 The Wirgaus https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-wirgaus/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-wirgaus/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:00:58 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=882 Featured in our June edition of The Ottawa Advocate   THE RIGHT THING.     “Please, Mom. Please! Don’t do the right thing.”  My son is nearly hysterical.    “Just this time. Don’t do the right thing! You don’t always have to do the good thing every time!”       He coughs out these words between red-faced cries. T-shirt wet with […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-wirgaus/feed/ 7 Bike Donations https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bike-donations/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bike-donations/#comments Mon, 10 May 2021 20:54:20 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=874 NOW ACCEPTING BIKE DONATIONS sPRING/sUMMER 2021 Help us get a bike to every foster child in Ottawa County! We are now accepting bike donations. Our biggest area of need currently is 24″ bikes for our older youth. Please contact tiffany@michiganfosters.com if you have bikes to donate.    Michigan Fosters is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.  Donation […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bike-donations/feed/ 3 Faces of Foster Care https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/faces-of-foster-care/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/faces-of-foster-care/#respond Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:23:42 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=844   These people – the ones who have stepped into foster care, not by bringing in fosters of their own, but by choosing to circle around us are too the faces of foster care.     Texts keep coming. “What do the kids need?” “What do you need?” “How can we help?” “How are you holding up?” “You’ve got this!” Toys […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/faces-of-foster-care/feed/ 0 The Browers https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-browers/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-browers/#respond Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:34:28 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=820 Featured in our April edition of The Ottawa Advocate   Braving the Hard Road.     Foster families rarely follow a straight path. There are blind corners and speed bumps, twists and tangles. Half the time the headlights are out and radio is blaring. Oddly, the oncoming traffic seems not to be trying to avoid collision, but at times, forcefully crash. And once the destination has been reached, or at least the destination for […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-browers/feed/ 0 This is Foster Care | Part 1 https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/this-is-foster-care-part-1/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/this-is-foster-care-part-1/#respond Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:25:06 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=802 The post This is Foster Care | Part 1 appeared first on .

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/the-parrotts/feed/ 0 Bringing Black History Home:  Books & Movies to Explore as a Family  https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bringing-black-history-home-books-movies-to-explore-as-a-family/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bringing-black-history-home-books-movies-to-explore-as-a-family/#respond Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:22:50 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=737   Reserve time to gather around a good book or settle in for a movie night honoring the Black experience.     As foster parents, we are often provided the unique opportunity to care for children outside our own race or cultural heritage. This opportunity also brings huge responsibility as we must prepare ourselves to better understand the challenges and successes of people whose lives look different from […]

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]]> https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/bringing-black-history-home-books-movies-to-explore-as-a-family/feed/ 0 15 Ways to Support Foster Families https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/ways-to-support/ https://michiganfosters.com/the-advocate/ways-to-support/#respond Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:30:41 +0000 https://michiganfosters.com/?p=695 “If it’s not too much trouble for you… “ – all foster parents Imagine going from 2 to 4 children overnight. Or from 5 kiddos to 8 between lunch and dinner time.    This is what many of our foster parents experience every day. They wake up in the morning completely unaware that later that […]

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