By Brad Brooks
Executive Director

In preparation for a recent Sunday morning presentation at one of Southeastern Children’s Home’s supporting churches, our foster care team put together an information sheet with the tagline, “Everybody Can Do Something.” As I spoke that morning, I made sure I emphasized that important phrase to the people listening. Sometimes the need feels too great, too big, too overwhelming and it paralyzes us, causing us to feel stuck and inadequate. Sometimes we just do not know what to do. So, we do nothing.

But by emphasizing that phrase, it was our effort to let everyone in that particular church know that when it comes to meeting the needs of the children and families in the foster care system, it is indeed the case that all people everywhere are capable of helping. It is true for that particular church; it is true for all churches; it is true for you.

Our foster care team’s goal is to help inform people that, within the foster care system, there are countless ways for them – for you – to help. Could helping include getting licensed as either an on-campus or off-campus foster parent with SECH? Yes. Could helping mean accepting a foster child or children into your home for a long-term placement? Yes. Could helping look like welcoming a foster child into your home on a short-term or respite basis, providing a needed overnight or weekend break for licensed foster parents in your church or community? Yes. Could you provide weekly babysitting for a foster child or two so their foster parents can enjoy dinner together as a couple? Yes. Could it even be providing meals or laundry service or transportation for licensed foster parents? Yes. Yes. Yes!