As they start their 4th year fostering, the DeValcourts have planted many seeds of connection with vulnerable children and have even caught glimpses of growth as the Lord heals hearts and minds of children from hard places. Kristie & Gary are currently fostering their 7th child, B, a sweet 2 year-old boy with cancer. Recently, they invited Bās mom and … Read More
Crossroads Connection Camp
Crossroads hosted our inaugural Crossroads Connection TBRIĀ® Camp last month at First Baptist New Orleans. This camp was specially designed to meet the needs of kids who have experienced early childhood trauma. It was a week of connecting, empowering, and correcting through the lens of TBRIĀ®. Our goal was to give children an environment where they could learn and grow, … Read More
Supporting Kids and Families this Christmas
Your support is essential to provide what children like the C Brothers need to healāa family. This year has been a year like no other. But even with so much change and so much uncertainty, some things have remained the same ā children across Louisiana have continued to enter foster care, and just like in years past, these children still … Read More
Crossroads NOLA moves to Online Training to Support Foster Families and Supporters
Trauma-informed training supported by $30,000 grant, available statewide August 31, 2020 (New Orleans, LA) ā Crossroads NOLA ā a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization that recruits, equips and supports foster families ā is adapting to the COVID-19 outbreak by moving its trauma-informed training programs online. The Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRIĀ®) courses will help to meet the additional needs of foster families … Read More
Foster Families Adapt and Thrive During COVID-19
“Our plans were to complete the adoption in person, but we were notified just a few days prior to it that it would have to be virtual. Initially, we were disappointed, but God knew just what we needed, and we really treasure the memories from that morning. We gathered around the sofa – the same sofa where we had cuddled … Read More
Volunteers Step Up to Support Families During Pandemic
“Foster care is not just those families that take in children, it is those people who babysit for foster families, bring them meals, supply them with diapers, and hold their hands when they need it. I want people to know that every family needs a village to surround them and not every family has that. That is why helping in … Read More
Angel Award Goes to our Deserving Director
āIf I could have Anna Palmer in every region of the state, we would be golden.ā Marketa Walters, Secretary of Department of Children and Family Services Congrats to Anna Palmer, our Executive Director, for receiving the 2019 Blue Cross Foundation Angel Award. This award āhonors everyday people doing extraordinary good to meet the physical, emotional, creative, or spiritual needs of … Read More
Every Moment Matters: Easing Transitions for Children Entering Foster Care
āWhat a practical way to immediately bless a foster child!ā 3 Day Bag Participant Approximately 4500 children are in foster care in Louisiana on any given day. As children are removed, they often leave home with only the clothes on their backs. This traumatic situation is sometimes made more difficult when they arrive at a foster home, without items of … Read More
Fostering Connection with Popsicles!
Why TBRIĀ®? Children and families affected by trauma need safe connected relationships to heal. Trust-Based Relational InterventionĀ® (TBRI) is an evidenced-based caregiving model that provides practical and effective principles to build relationships needed for healing. We bring together individuals and organizations to infuse TBRIĀ® practices across the state, to give children and families access to the relationships and support they … Read More
Winning At Kindergarten ā One Victory at a Time!
Meet Maggie Broussard, one of the 65 currently active Crossroads NOLA families that collectively have cared for 133 children in foster care in the first half of 2019 alone! Since she was certified in October 2017, Maggie has been a fierce advocate of the kids that are ā or have been in ā her care. At the beginning of the … Read More
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