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Rebuilding Lives Foster Family Agency Rebuilding Lives Foster Family Agency is a Non-Profit Treatment Foster Family Agency.

Our primary function is to provide foster children with care, education, individual support, and assistance needed for their individual growth and development.

🤍 We need to talk about keeping siblings together in foster care.Imagine three siblings—ages 9, 6, and 4—entering foster...
10/07/2026

🤍 We need to talk about keeping siblings together in foster care.

Imagine three siblings—ages 9, 6, and 4—entering foster care together. They’ve already experienced something difficult, but through it all, they had each other. The oldest reads to the youngest. The middle child knows exactly how to comfort their sibling. They share memories, routines, and a bond that has helped them feel safe.

Then foster care steps in to protect them—and suddenly, they could be separated from the very people who have helped them through it.

In San Bernardino County, only 54.5% of foster children are placed with all of their siblings, while roughly 1 in 4 are placed with none of them.

That matters because a sibling relationship can become one of the longest relationships of a person’s entire life.

California recognizes this. WIC §16002 requires diligent efforts to place siblings together whenever possible. But making that happen requires foster families willing to open their homes to sibling groups.

If you’ve considered fostering but a sibling group feels intimidating, let’s talk before you decide. Taking two or three children may require more preparation, but keeping siblings together can give children something incredibly important during an uncertain time: each other. 🤍

And you won’t be doing it alone. Foster families receive support, resources, respite care, financial assistance, and a social worker available to help throughout the journey.

🏠 One home can help keep siblings together.

📞 442-255-4870
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com
📍 Victorville, CA

When a parent dies, the world knows what to do. People bring food. They send cards. They take the afternoon off and sit ...
10/03/2026

When a parent dies, the world knows what to do. People bring food. They send cards. They take the afternoon off and sit in a folding chair at a service and say the kid's name out loud. 🤍 When a parent is still alive but the child cannot go home, none of that happens.

There is no funeral. No casserole. No card. No afternoon off. The loss is just as real, and the world has no script for it, so the world says nothing at all. The child learns very quickly that this particular grief is not the kind you are allowed to talk about.

Researchers have a name for it. Pauline Boss called it ambiguous loss: grief for someone who is physically gone but psychologically still here. Grief with no ending, because the person is still out there somewhere. Grief that never gets the ceremony that lets mourning close.

Here is what that costs. About 80% of foster youth live with mental health challenges, compared to roughly 20% of their peers. And grief that nobody names does not evaporate. It goes underground, and it comes back wearing a different outfit. It comes back as a slammed door. As a kid who will not eat dinner with the family. As a nine-year-old who suddenly cannot sleep alone. As rage that seems to come from nowhere and actually comes from somewhere very specific.

We call it behavior. It was grief the whole time.

So here is the part we want every current and future foster parent to hear, because it is the part people get wrong out of love:

**You do not have to fix it.**

You cannot give the child their parent back. You cannot make the loss make sense. You cannot talk them out of missing someone who hurt them, and you should not try, because loving someone who hurt you is one of the most human things a person can do.

What you can do is stay. Let the photo stay on the nightstand. Say the parent's name without flinching when the child says it. Let the anniversary be hard without needing it to be fixed by bedtime. Be the steady adult in the room on the day it hits, and still be there on the ordinary Tuesday after.

Grief does not need to be solved. It needs a witness.

That is the whole job. And you are more qualified for it than you think.

At RBL FFA, every family receives trauma informed training and referrals to grief competent counseling, because no one should learn this alone. If you are already fostering and the grief in your home feels bigger than you know how to hold, call us. That is what we are here for.

📞 442-255-4870
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com
📍 Victorville, CA · Serving San Bernardino and Orange County

*If you or a young person in your care is struggling, the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline handles emotional distress of every kind, not only crisis. Call or text 988.*

Somewhere in Victorville this morning, a woman in her sixties is packing a lunch she did not plan on packing. 💜She raise...
09/22/2026

Somewhere in Victorville this morning, a woman in her sixties is packing a lunch she did not plan on packing. 💜

She raised her kids already. She did the school runs, the science fairs, the long nights. And then a hard season came for her own child, and a social worker called, and she said yes before she finished the sentence. Now there is a booster seat in her car again and a kid at her table who calls her Grandma and means "mom."

That is kinship care. September is its month.

Across the country, 2.5 million children are being raised by a grandparent, a relative, or a close family friend. More than 2 million of those caregivers are grandparents. They are the largest group of foster parents in America and the least likely to ask anyone for help.

Here is what the research keeps finding: when kids cannot stay with their parents, they do best with their own people. Kinship placements deliver greater stability and permanency, stronger connection to cultural identity, better mental health and behavioral outcomes, and deeper roots in their own community than non relative care. Grandma is not the backup plan. Grandma is the gold standard.

But too many kin caregivers are carrying this alone, unaware that support exists. Stipends. Respite. Trauma informed training. A social worker who picks up the phone.

If you are already raising a relative's child, you may qualify for help you are not receiving. One call finds out.

📞 442-255-4870
✉️ [email protected]
🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com
📍 Victorville, CA

What if one home could change a child's whole fall? Fall is coming, warmth is needed. Give a foster child an experience ...
09/17/2026

What if one home could change a child's whole fall? Fall is coming, warmth is needed. Give a foster child an experience for this season: comfort, stability, and someone in their corner. Rebuilding Lives Foster Family Agency is looking for foster parents ready to open their homes, with real benefits and support behind you. Find out how to become a foster parent today. Link in bio.

09/14/2026

Hispanic Heritage Month runs Sep 15 through Oct 15, and in California foster care this month lands especially heavy. More than half of the kids in our state’s foster system identify as Latinx or Black. Kids carrying language, faith, food, music, and family stories that don’t pause when a placement changes.
Culturally-competent placement isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s what makes a placement actually feel like home. A kid who hears Spanish at the dinner table. A quinceañera that still happens. A tamalada in December because that’s what abuela always did. Dia de los Mu***os with photos on the mantel, not questions from confused foster parents.
Kinship placement is the gold standard here. When it isn’t possible, the next best thing is a foster family that shares or actively honors the child’s culture, language, and identity.
RBL FFA recruits foster families from every background across San Bernardino and Orange County, and we match placements with culture in mind. Every single time.
If you speak Spanish. If your kitchen already smells like home. If you know what it means to hold onto where you come from, we want to talk to you.
Cultura guardada. Raíces preservadas. Hogar.
📞 442-255-4870�🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com�📍 Victorville, CA

Cal Fire’s peak wildfire season in Southern California runs September through November. If you foster in the High Desert...
09/09/2026

Cal Fire’s peak wildfire season in Southern California runs September through November. If you foster in the High Desert or Orange County, your go-bag needs 3 things most families forget. 🔥

1. Court paperwork copies: Placement order, ID copies, medical consent forms. Kept together, not in a filing cabinet you can’t grab in 15 minutes.

2. Two weeks of any prescribed medications: In their original bottles. Foster kids often arrive on prescriptions that are hard to replace mid-crisis.

3. One comfort object per child.** The specific stuffed animal. The specific blanket. The photo they need to sleep. Not a substitute. The actual one.

Add these to whatever you already pack for the rest of the family. And if you aren’t sure what your foster case plan requires during evacuation, call your social worker today, not during a fire.

📞 442-255-4870
🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com

September is National Su***de Prevention Month. For foster youth, this month isn't abstract. It's a crisis they're stati...
08/30/2026

September is National Su***de Prevention Month. For foster youth, this month isn't abstract. It's a crisis they're statistically living inside every day. 💜

24% of California transition age foster youth have attempted su***de. The rate for their same age peers outside the system is about 2%. 40% have seriously considered it. These numbers come from the Cal YOUTH Study out of UC's Chapin Hall research center. They are not exaggerations.

If you are in crisis right now, or know someone who is, call or text 988. That's the national Su***de and Crisis Lifeline. It's free. It's 24/7. It's staffed by trained counselors.

Foster parents, listen up. Research keeps landing on the same protective factor: one stable, present adult cuts su***de risk in half. Not a therapist. Not a program. A person who keeps showing up.

That person could be you.

📞 442-255-4870
🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com
🆘 988 for crisis

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DID YOU KNOW⁉️August is Kids Eat Right Month. And in foster care, food is one of the fastest paths to a child feeling sa...
08/26/2026

DID YOU KNOW⁉️

August is Kids Eat Right Month. And in foster care, food is one of the fastest paths to a child feeling safe. 🍅

For a kid who's been through hell, a meal at the same table, at the same time, made by the same hands isn't a small thing. It's the whole thing. A regulated nervous system starts with a full stomach and a predictable rhythm.

Culturally-familiar food matters even more. When a Latinx kid gets abuela's tacos. When a Black kid gets grandma's greens. When a Southeast Asian kid gets rice at every meal. That's not preference — that's medicine. Trauma-informed foster parents know: ask what they miss, then cook it.

Every RBL FFA family gets trained in food-as-healing. It's one of the quiet things that separates a placement from a home.

📞 442-255-4870 · 🌐 Rebuildinglivesffa.com

Your friendly neighborhood Foster Care Agency staff wishes your Good Morning, happy Monday at work, and have a great day...
08/17/2026

Your friendly neighborhood Foster Care Agency staff wishes your Good Morning, happy Monday at work, and have a great day at School kiddos! 💟🧸
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