Category Archives: Foster Care

Anyone who decides to open their homes and their hearts to foster a child with special needs obviously has a lot of love to give and a clear desire to use it to help children.

As a social worker with Kennedy Krieger’s Therapeutic Foster Care program, I’m fortunate to meet so many kind and loving individuals who simply want to provide loving, stable homes for children in need—some with multiple medical or behavioral issues. Sometimes, one of those families decides they want to commit to a lifetime of caring and become a forever family to a child who desperately needs just that.

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