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Cafés are welcoming environments where people from all walks of life can connect. In Grand Rapids and Holland, Bethany Christian Services has established Parent Cafés where parents and caregivers can meet to learn and grow through supportive conversations.

Our kids saw foster care as exciting—Yay! A new brother or sister!—but they soon realized there was more to it than that. Our life as a family flipped upside down with each new placement, so we followed these guidelines to make sure our kids were not overwhelmed.

Talk honestly with your children about what foster care is and how having another child in your home will affect them.

Rapid Growth

With the inaugural Gratitude Concert this Saturday, the Delta Project is spotlighting the unsung heroes who are helping "at risk" youth reach their potential.

Fox 17 West Michigan

Dad Cafés aims to connect local fathers and give them a space to form friendships and find support unique to fatherhood.

Inside Indy

Bethany Christian Services of Central Indiana is a licensed child placing agency. What that means is we work with people who are interested in becoming foster parents to get them to licensed children who are in need of care.

CBS 21

In Pennsylvania’s child welfare system, the Statewide Adoption Permanency Network (SWAN) offers some consistency county to county. It’s a partnership designed to help county children and youth agencies find permanent homes faster for the children in system.

Detroit Free Press

Kinship caregivers nationwide save the child welfare system more than $6.5 billion in formal foster care costs.

The Christian Post

This biblical hospitality is a deep conviction of mine and my family’s. It is our privilege to welcome others into our homes and treat them as if they belong — because in the kingdom economy, they do.