Thank you Western Michigan University’s Alpha Xi Delta women for spending a few hours this week helping clean our Foster Care Visitation rooms!

Alpha Xi Delta has been a true partner to us, volunteering at so many events and offering help with everything from stuffing envelopes to cleaning different spaces. They are brilliant, hardworking, hilarious, and so kind. We are so grateful they spend so much time making our lives easier and the lives of our clients more beautiful!

Thank you so much, ladies!

We recently held our staff picnic to celebrate and honor the hard work our staff completes every day for our community!

This year we featured a Family & Children Services Farmer’s Market, complete with F&CS “bucks” that every staff member was given to spend at local vendor stalls. It was a perfect day celebrating staff and local merchants!

We truly believe we have the most dedicated, intelligent, and compassionate team so take as many opportunities as possible to celebrate them.

Yesterday Agency leadership held our very own car wash for staff to thank them for all their hard work.

Our frontline staff put their cars through so much transporting children and families to and from meetings so we wanted to show our understanding of that by giving their cars a little love.

Thank you so much to everyone that came to get their cars washed (and didn’t judge the work!) We appreciate you!

Last week we hosted close to 300 clients and families for our annual Family Picnic! We had a petting zoo, therapy dogs, Kona ice, and a delicious meal. We also had free clothing, school supplies, and books.

Social connections are vital when it comes to keeping families together and offering our Family Picnic is one way we help families form those connections. Whether it’s with other foster parents who are at similar stages of the process, or other families experiencing similar situations, events like these allow for organic communities to be built.

Thank you so much to the staff, donors, volunteers, and vendors who made this event fun for everyone. And thank you to our clients for taking the time to come!