You’re just amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!! I’ve always considered fostering but just never had the guts to do it. I’m a 50 yr old empty nester (3 grown boys). I’m an RN and I have more compassion and love than I know what to do with and I ADORE all children (and elderly as well). You’ve given me a lot to consider and I really appreciate you and what you do! You have a beautiful little family! God bless you! ❤❤❤

Could you do a video on what you need to do to get your house prepared? I know someone will come and look at your house and let you know what needs to be done to prepare your house but it would be so helpful to have a video checklist

I’ve been watching you since miss a came into your care, last month I got my approval to be a respite care provider for a family from my old job! The moms hadn’t been out by themselves for almost two years! Thanks to you sharing all the info you do I was prepared going into trainings and all the steps I had to take to be able to support this family! So glad to have this amazing channel as a resource when I do eventually want to become a foster parent 💕

I want to thank you. I found you when I became a Kinship foster care. You helped me so much. The high and lows. You were there. We got custody a year ago. Thank you

For those wanting to get involved without become a foster parent, look to see if you have an Isaiah 117 House in your county! They're mostly in TN, TX, and IN, with a few other states mixed in (and more on the way). The house serves to welcome and support children and caseworkers on the day that children are removed from their homes - a day which is often the most traumatic of a child's life. The caseworker can bring the kids to the house and go fill out their mound of paperwork and work to find a placement in a quiet office while a trained volunteer helps get the kids what the need - new clothes, a bath, food (so the caseworkers don't have to pay out of pocket), school supplies, or even just to be a friend to play with. And in the case that a placement isn't located on the day the children are removed (which sadly happens more often than you'd think), there bedrooms in the house for the kids to sleep in - so they're not sleeping on the floor of a conference room of the CPS office or in a hotel. (Yes, that does happen 😢). They are a faith based organization which I know not everyone in this audience is, so just a heads up. I'm sure they'd love your help regardless of if you are Christian or not :)

I grew up in foster care so after struggling with infertility for 10 years my husband and I began the process of becoming foster parents. Before we could get fully licensed we got a kinship placement of 3 kiddos. That was over 3 years ago and we still have our kiddos so foster parent classes have been placed on the back burner. Thank you and John for all you guys do!

I think it’s great that you teach people about foster care and encourage it. I wish more organizations, schools, churches encouraged it.

Would like to see a list of Children’s books to help preschool age bio children understand and cope with the changes that result from having a new foster placement. Daughter has recently had 2 placed with her family for the first time.

Thank you for your honesty, kindness & care. Adoption & fostering are such a wonderful way to show kindness for other's & as a parent who has done both I know how much love & learning a child can bring into a family. Thank you for your respectful video's & for bringing light to the subject. Many blessings from Ireland

Hey I just wanted to say me and my husband struggle with infertility. I have one biological daughter with him and we recently signed up for foster care and I am excited, but extremely scared, because we just got our first placement! It’s a 3 year old and we have a 2.5 year old so I’m so excited honestly for her to have a play mate. I’m very excited but I just want to say this is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but watching your videos has really pushed me to make it a reality

I am glad you are discussing all those other options to help. I am very interested in either adopting or fostering in the future, but I am not quite ready yet to be able to take a child into my home yet, so it is good to hear these other options on how I can get involved.

Don’t have any questions but just wanted to say: people like you are the reason people go into being a foster caregiver/family .! Just started my TIPS Classes Last Week and have my 2nd tomorrow .! I’m so excited for the journey and am so thankful for you being raw and real !

I love your videos would love a video on how you handle people and their social media posting pictures of your foster kids? This is something we struggle with!! Because the little girl we have ends up in pictures at birthday parties and events and then we see them on Facebook and have to ask people to take them down people have litterly been upset that we asked and that has limited who we can hang out with even for family! Would love to hear how you handle this as we are just getting started with foster care and of all the things we deal with I'm struggling with this a lot as it is for safety!

Thank you so much for sharing! ❤

my husband and i start classes May 9 and also in Ohio

Informal kinship sucks in this country. My sister went thru hell volunteering to take our nieces. My nephew and signifant other are drug addicts living in their car during 20 below weather. It was a nightmare. I wish you would do a video on this broken system. My sister could write a book. Love your videos.

There’s over 100 foster youth living in shelters around Alaska, mostly because people don’t have the courage to help these children and teens, there’s such a need for more foster homes … my heart hurts, imagine not knowing if your going to have a safe bed to sleep in, or food to eat, imagine feeling un-loved, or that all your hard work and perseverance just keeps leading to heartache, imagine not having a loving family, or someone to trust, imagine taking out your traumas on people because that’s what people have given you…. And then getting kicked out and not taught.These are real things foster kids face. You people can keep thinking about it or actually take action.

I started into fostering when I worked at a childcare center. The owner had 2 which she was in the process of adopting. The process you describe is exactly what I went through here in Virginia. I was allowed to bring my kids to work as soon as I had them show up on my door step. My first had just turned 1 and showed up at 8pm. He screamed every time I tried to change his diaper. I was very verbal about what we were doing and how i would do things. I tried to find words he needed to express. It took a few days to find the phrase, "Your mommy can't be here now and we need to get that dirty diaper off of you." He immediately came and laid down and cooperated. I hadn't thought to mention mommy and why she wasn't with us. I haven't seen you address non verbal children helps. I immediately started using signs, which he learned quickly, for as much as possible to relieve his frustration.. I have since retired from fostering as a single person.

I was in foster care when I was a teenager. I'm 31 now and my husband I are have trouble getting pregnant . I did not have the best expansion in foster care I wish my foster parent taught me some life skills like cooking.

I started watching your channel in the spring/ summer of 2019. One of things I did this semester was waiting until close to the end of the school year to volunteer at a school . Are you able to do a video on how kids in care celebrate Fourth of July,

I'm here because I'm doing as much research as I can right now because the other night I met a runaway and iv learned where she is and has been have been horrible for her and she's going through a lot right now and needs help needs a new caseworker my gosh it's a real bad situation for her and I need help trying to figure out how I can help her and get her out of this place and in a better place or with me something. I'm learning a lot from you already but I dunno what else to do I don't know where to start.

Can you share the other youtubers you watched who are also foster parents??

Hi, just found your channel and I have a question: How do we pick the best foster agency to get involved with? There are three in my area, is there a way to check what foster parents really think of them? Of course they advertise themselves as best, but I suspect that's not necessarily the case. One is really close so I could easily get involved in all the programs offered.

Hi! What KZfaq channels did you watch on fostering?

Can you link Brittany, the CASA, on here?

I learned through one of your Tiktoks that it's more appropriate to say "child in foster care", but can you touch on why "foster family" is appropriate? I could make a few guesses but I'd love to hear it from you. I love your channel, and am more interested in fostering knowing that it doesn't necessarily have to be faith based.

Hey BTV! Hope all is well.

I'm not really understanding how your videos were inappropriate, but The Home Edit was able to share a full video of a child in foster care on Netflix. It's so frustrating when the rules only apply to some people.

Hello from Ohio! Do you network with other foster parents?

Can a single woman be a foster mom?

Is there an age limit to be a foster mother? I’m 59 years old. Can you be single? I’m in California. Can you have more than one child in a bedroom? Are you allowed to take the children to church with you, if you are a certain religion and they are not the same?

@be the village i guess you are no longer fostering any longer