Fostering Creatively: A 100 lb Bike Ride & YouTube Star
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Nichole shares what she enjoys about being a single foster mom and how she creatively tackles foster care challenges.
Since this recording, Nichole has adopted the sibling set of 3 and the teen boy that she talks about in her interview. And the teen boy graduated high school!
Learn more about Nichole’s adoption journey on the Fostering the Future Podcast.
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Nichole and her four kids.
Nichole and her kids on adoption day.
Nichole with her parents and one of her sons.
The calm corner at Nichole’s house.
Nichole’s daughter at horse therapy.
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Kids Crossing
We’re so thankful for our community of supporters that makes Just As Special possible including our Season 2 sponsor Kids Crossing, a private foster care agency started by foster parents for foster parents.
Arguably the most important decision to make when becoming a foster parent is what agency you’ll choose. Because as a foster parent, you will rely on your foster care agency for support.
Kids Crossing provides many no-cost services including:
Therapy services for the kids
Family therapy
Family preservation services
Foster parent support groups
Parenting coaches
Trauma-informed parenting training
And much more!
Kids Crossing is also committed to diversity and inclusion and has partnered with Just As Special to provide their foster parents with virtual, on-demand training.
This training is focused on helping foster parents practically apply lessons learned from diverse perspectives of foster care through powerful personal interviews with former foster youth; multi-cultural foster families; same-sex foster families; foster care professionals; and much more.
Kids Crossing foster parent Ben said, “Just As Special gives me insight from different people in foster care such as other foster parents or former foster kids. These perspectives have opened up my mind to different ways of thinking, which in turn helped me better understand my foster kiddo.”
Kids Crossing has four locations across Colorado in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and La Junta.
Learn more at KidsCrossing.com and tell them Just As Special sent you.
Hope felt like she had way more help than she could use as a foster parent which led her to start thinking about how she could help other families who could benefit from even just one more friend.