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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...
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.
National Adoption Month Q&A With Willie Dubose
My wife and I have been with Seraaj [Family Homes, Inc.] since either 1999 or 2000. We’ve adopted six kids and raised even more. I do whatever I can, as long as God gives me and my wife the strength.
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...
The Nonstop Nurturer: Meet Voncile Jackson Swoopes
Swoopes has been a nurturer since she was a child. She’s the eleventh child of 14. She says she enjoyed having a large family and being surrounded by kids. Swoopes remembers her older siblings being protective of her, just as she was protective of her younger siblings. She recalls her mom and father teaching her and her siblings to always look out for each other, and now she’s doing that for others’ children.
The Past, Present, and the Potential of Using Virtual Gaming as a Clinical Intervention Tool at Seraaj Family Homes, Inc.
In recognition of September 12 being National Video Game Day, here’s an exploration of the company’s past, present, and plans concerning virtual gaming as a clinical intervention tool for its youth in foster care.
Girl With Severe Special Needs Finds Her Forever Family For the Second Time
After bouncing around a few foster care agencies, in December 2013, Jamiah landed in the home of Debra Scott, a foster parent for Seraaj Family Homes, Inc. who’s fostered 32 children since 2000. Scotts lives in Oxford, Alabama.