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National Adoption Month: Q&A With Former Foster Child Krystal Key
Krystal Key, one of the older adopted daughters from the Dubose family, spoke about her experience in the system, about how the Duboses rescued her and her siblings, how she’s a thriving adult with a husband and kids of her own, and her plans to become a therapist and a foster mom one day.
Aging Forward Past Foster Care: Making A Progression Plan
Aging Forward Past Foster Care: Making A Progression Plan By Shay Stinson Edited by Intisar Seraaj Welcome back to the continuation of the “Aging...
National Adoption Month Q&A with Michael Pettway
Meet Paw-Paw Pettway By Shay Stinson On November 5, 2019, the agency’s Mobile, Alabama region hosted an online case review where our CEO Abdul Seraaj interviewed our foster parent Michael Pettway, a retired auto mechanic who still makes close family house calls and...
National Adoption Month: Q&A With Janice Saylor
By Intisar Seraaj Janice Saylor has been a foster parent with Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. her husband Clayton Saylor for about 18 years. They live in Troy, Alabama with their adopted son and daughter Marcuse S. and Taylor B. Q: Can you tell me a little about yourself?...
‘Aging Forward’ Explained
With preparation and help, youth in foster care should be able to successfully age forward and begin their lives with optimism and hope.
National Adoption Month Q&A With Bobbie Simpson
Bobbie Simpson is a foster parent with her husband Terry Simpson with Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. They’ve been with the company for about seven years and live in Munford, Alabama. They adopted a sibling duo (their son Jamal and daughter Contrell) through the agency. They also have two biological sons.
National Adoption Month Q&A With Lorene Harper & Her Adopted Daughter
My kids all help each other. It’s like I birthed them all; I birthed them through love. I adopted them because love wouldn’t let go. I fell in love with them and I couldn’t let go. I had to keep them.
For the Love of Children: Mattie & Moses Harris
“The key thing is if you’re going to foster you have to love kids,” said Mattie. “You have to have patience. If you don’t have love for children and you don’t have patience, then don’t get into this business.”
Former Foster Child Adopts Five Kids & Has Fostered for 20 Years: The Story of Richard Kays
Richard “Rusty” Kays has been involved with the foster care system for most of his life. He says he grew up in foster care since he was 3 days old and aged out of the system when he was 18. But he had a consistent foster family. He’s been paying that love forward for the past two decades as a foster parent himself with Seraaj Family Homes, Inc.
Looking to Love: The Story of Charlene Armstead
By Intisar Seraaj Charlene Armstead, a resident of Hueytown, Alabama, was introduced to fostering through her best friend Bernadette Rush, a foster parent for Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. (SFH). Armstead says she was exposed to youth in foster care when visiting Rush’s...