Cheri Jimenez joins me to discuss Safe Families for Children, supporting families in crisis, and the various roles people can fill to help a family in need reach a place of stability.
“I was brought up in a Christian home, we have a wonderful spiritual legacy. My grandparents were missionaries in Haiti for 46 years….Yy parents took over the work and the late 90s.”
“They [parents] maintain full custody. This is not something mandated by the state. They do not sign their children over…. They allow us to keep their children, so that they can make those changes necessary.”
“If we didn’t have a support system where would we be? So many of the individuals we serve just need help. So we are able to step in and through our host families…host their children while the parents get the help that they need.”
“This [Safe Families for Children] isn’t foster care.”
“Many of the families we serve, those relationships are long standing. Even after the children go back home, that support system that is put around them [remains].”
“There are many different roles that people can take on and we call it our circle of support.”
“We tell people we’re not here to help them solve all their problems, but we are here to get them to the next step.”
“A church stepped forward and wanted to give her and her son a Christmas.”
“We’re here to serve you and love you and support you, but it does take a parent willing to do the hard work.”
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