Sondra

FREE Parenting Tender Hearts Pilot Classes — Come Learn & Help Us Grow! ❤️ We’ve Been Building Something Special—Now We Need You. Two live Zoom options • 6 weeks • Only 12 spots per class • Register by October 3 We’ve been working on something really special at TruLight127, and now we need people willing to help us take the next step. Through Project REACH, we have been thoughtfully updating our Parenting Tender Hearts curriculum while holding onto the strong foundation that has made this...

There is something both beautiful and terrifying about an emergency foster care placement. The phone rings. A child needs a home. The details are limited. You don't know their history. You don't know what they have experienced. You don't know how long they will stay or what tomorrow will bring. All you know is that a child needs someone to say, "Yes." For many families, that's exactly where fear steps in. "What if we're not ready?" "What if we don't know what to do?" "What if it's harder than...

By Sondra Ajasin One of the biggest misconceptions about Child Protective Services (CPS) is that they exist to fix families. They don't. CPS exists to protect children when concerns have reached a level where the safety of a child is in question. By the time CPS becomes involved, a family is often already in crisis. Emotions are high. Relationships are strained. Trust has been broken. Children are scared. Parents feel overwhelmed, judged, and sometimes hopeless. I've spent years working...