My connection to child welfare happened when I became a foster parent. I did years of research and listening to former foster youth and adoptees before deciding that the foster parent cohort needed the most help.

All of my research prepared me for the children who spent time in my home, but I found that there was no one to support the children’s bio parents and I was surprised at the pushback received in advocating for children's safe but swift reunification.

Mosaic Advocacy was created from this experience. We believe that having your children removed doesn’t make you unworthy of love and support, less than any other human or even a bad parent. Many parents whose children enter the system carry incredibly heavy traumas and are doing their best in caring for their kiddos with the tools this life has provided them. We stand in the gap between a traditional child welfare system and reunification.

We need to parent these parents like we want them to parent these children.