Being a Teen Is Hard Enough Without Losing Your Safe Place
Parenting a teenager is tough. You never quite know which personality is walking through the door from one day to the next. But let’s be honest. Being a teenager is even tougher.
On top of body changes, school pressure, extracurriculars, and learning how to navigate relationships, some kids are dealing with something much heavier. For them, home is not a safe place at all.
Teenagers in Indiana Foster Care Need Support
About 31,000 children are in Indiana’s foster care system, and many of them are teenagers. Some have spent most of their lives in foster care. Others are entering the system for the very first time.
These kids are often carrying deep emotional trauma from being separated from their families and everything familiar. They are also facing huge uncertainty about what comes next, all while trying to survive one of the hardest stages of life.
How Isaiah 117 House Began
Back in 2014, Ronda Paulson and her husband Corey decided to become foster parents. During their required training at the Washington County TN Department of Children’s Services, they learned something that would change their family forever…