Sotera Youth & Family Services Collaborative

06/05/2026

June is National Reunification Month.

At Sotera, reunification means hope.

Every day, we have the privilege of providing supervised visitation services that help children maintain meaningful connections with their parents and families while they work toward stability, healing, and positive change.

Reunification is rarely a single moment. It is a journey made up of small steps. Showing up consistently, rebuilding trust, learning new skills, overcoming challenges, and putting a child's needs first. Behind every successful reunification are countless hours of hard work by parents, children, foster families, caseworkers, service providers, and supportive communities.

While not every family's path looks the same, we believe children benefit when safe, healthy family connections can be preserved and strengthened.

We are honored to walk alongside families during some of their most challenging seasons and to celebrate the progress, growth, and reunification successes that happen along the way.

This Reunification Month, we recognize the resilience of children, the dedication of parents working toward change, and the many professionals and caregivers who support families every step of the way.

06/03/2026

06/01/2026

As Foster Care Appreciation Month comes to a close, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the moments people don’t always see.

The school activities.
The extra laundry.
The difficult conversations.
The visitation exchanges.
The outgrown shoes.
The routines, patience, and consistency that happen quietly every day.

This month reminded us that foster care is rarely made up of big headline moments.

More often, it’s people continuing to show up for children in ways that may seem ordinary to everyone else, but mean the world to a child.

To the foster parents, kinship caregivers, biological parents working through difficult circumstances, supportive family members, volunteers, and community members who continue showing up for kids in our community:

Thank you.

05/14/2026

Some of the most important moments in foster care don’t look big from the outside.

Sometimes they look like:
🩵showing up for the last middle school concert of the year
🩵sitting in the crowd at graduation
🩵walking across a field day with sunscreen and water bottles
🩵rearranging a work schedule to make it to just one more school event

Small moments.
Ordinary moments.
The kinds of moments kids remember anyway.

As the school year comes to a close, we’re especially thinking about the foster parents, kinship caregivers, and supportive adults who keep showing up — even in the busy, everyday moments that often go unseen.

We think that matters. 💛

05/13/2026

In continuing our support to foster and Kinship families ~ We still have a few kits available!
Contact us to arrange for pickup.

05/10/2026

These didn’t start with us.

They were thoughtfully curated gift sets put together by women in our community who wanted moms and caregivers to feel seen, appreciated, and supported.

This month, we were grateful to share some of them with the women who walked through our space. Through visits, our clothing swap, and quiet everyday moments in between.

We were simply one of the places they came through.

Some were shared during our clothing swap.
Some were given quietly, one by one.

However they were received, the message was the same:
You are seen.

Moments like this are only possible because of a community that chooses to show up.

We’re really glad to be a space where that can happen.

Happy Mother’s Day. 💛

05/09/2026

Quick poll:
What do kids seem to outgrow the fastest?
Vote below 👇

05/07/2026

This is what it can look like when space is available.

People come in.
Take what they need.
Share what they can.

And it keeps going.

Behind the scenes, everything is organized so families can easily find what they need—by size, by type, and ready for the next person who walks in.

05/02/2026

Today was simple in the best way.

23 kids came through the doors and got to pick out what they needed for the season; clothes, shoes, and a few fun extras.

Foster and kinship families brought in items to share and left with what they needed next.

Community members stopped in to donate and be part of it.

It wasn’t just giving or receiving. It was both.

Just people showing up, connecting, and supporting each other in a way that felt easy and real.

We’re really glad this space could be part of today.