Children’s Home & Aid raised over $400,000 during its annual fundraiser, with this year’s theme of “Breaking Barriers. Centering Families. Transforming Systems.” The goal of the day’s event was to highlight the challenges in the child welfare system and that we must end the need for foster care as we know it. Keynote speaker, best-selling […]
When Ashley and Riley Hurd first began to think about having a family, they made a plan — to have one biological child, then adopt another, opening their home to a child in need. But after their son Riley IV was born, when they started exploring adoption, they discovered a much bigger need: many children […]
Let It Be Us, a nonprofit dedicated to the adoption and support of children within the Illinois foster care system, is hosting its first Chicago fundraiser — “Be Mine” — on Friday, Feb. 22 at Fig + Olive. The fundraising event marks the organization’s expansion effort across the state to reach supporters in new markets […]
Being a socially conscious place, the Bay Area has a lot of authors who put societal issues front and center in their work, and a number of recent releases offer some intriguing non-fiction reads. From the story of an undercover reporter exposing the corrupt world of for-profit prisons (American Prison), to the trials and tribulations […]
Being a socially conscious place, the Bay Area has a lot of authors who put societal issues front and center in their work, and a number of recent releases offer some intriguing non-fiction reads. From the story of an undercover reporter exposing the corrupt world of for-profit prisons (American Prison), to the trials and tribulations […]
Two college acceptance letters arrived at my house recently, but they were no ordinary acceptance letters. These were letters to twin brothers who were born 17 years ago to a drug-addicted teenage mother, then spent the next few years in foster care. These were letters announcing that my adopted brothers were accepted into Arizona […]
