My connection to the foster system happened when I became a foster caregiver. I listened to former foster youth and adoptee stories for years before deciding that I could be a small part of the solution to a broken system, as a foster caregiver.

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 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 the traditional system and reunification.

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