Alabama Advocacy Agency

03/13/2023

02/04/2023

Helping one person might not change the world, but it could change the world for one person. What a mindset shift ♥️
Learn more how you could change the world for one person: https://americaskidsbelong.org/meet-the-kids/

01/30/2023

“He’s our foster brother… so that means we really love him a lot and we get to take really really good care of him until it’s not our turn anymore.” - Evelyn

I think about the impact of foster care on my forever kids nearly every day. The girls love hard and there are a lot of things that are hard to understand in foster care when you’re 6 and 7 (or 36 ).

They ask daily if M can stay forever and so we have daily conversations about the goal of foster care and naming the emotions we feel about it all.

So when I heard Evelyn share about M to a friend I cried….they are getting it. Not without a lot of bumps along the way for all of us but I’m so proud of them.

-Written by .Marie.may

01/19/2023

The King's Kids Foundation is doing big things!

12/16/2022

12/10/2022

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We got our first call in two years. We said yes. She’s (supposed to be) coming tomorrow.

The kids screamed in excitement. Sheer excitement. I understand their excitement.

I am passionate about creating a loving and healing home for vulnerable children. If there wasn’t some level of ”excitement” for this impossibly hard job, I don’t think I’d be able to do it.

But there isn’t only excitement. There’s a gravity, a heaviness, a sobering weight to the task at hand.

A (functionally) motherless child. A (functionally) childless mother. It’s the loneliest loss I could possibly imagine.

So as I open my door to the child, I open my heart to the mother.

My fight for restorative & redemptive foster care begins before the child even enters my home.

My preparation for this baby girl’s arrival isn’t (just) in cleaning & collecting clothes. My preparation is in my prayer: “God, please provide a family member who can care for this kiddo. Please allow for attachment & affection to grow fast and strong between mother & child. Please help this removal to be the moment mom needs to begin the path to change. Please bring healing—mind, body, soul, & relationship.”

And the prayer I need every day: “Please help my heart to stay aligned to your heart.”
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10/25/2022

We would like to thank the Monroeville Fire / Rescue Department for helping our next batch of foster families with their CPR certification. Fulfilling this resource locally was a blessing to Embrace Alabama Kids and our new foster parents in Monroe County!

09/17/2022