Charlie came to Agape at 17 years old, with a very upsetting past. His parents abused and neglected him for most of his childhood. His parents were not able to meet his basic needs of food, clothing, supervision and medical care. Things no one should ever have to go through especially an innocent child.
If that wasn’t enough, when Charlie was brought into foster care he was bounced around with other agencies. We wish he would have been placed with a resource family (formerly called foster family) that would care and support him but instead he was denied his personal rights. For example, each child in care is given an allowance, unfortunately Charlie’s previous resource families withheld this from him and so much more.
No adult showed up for Charlie and gave him the care and respect that he needed and deserved.
We met Charlie 3 months ago and are so thankful we did! He is living with an incredible Agape resource family, Denise and Chuck. When they first met Charlie he, understandably, had trust issues and was hesitant to talk. After a few short months of showing Charlie love and respect he is opening up and is building a relationship with them.
This is where Agape needs your help to find more resource families so we can help kids like Charlie. We are critically low on resource families and have to say “No, we don’t have a family for you” to kids every month. We are changing lives and cannot do it with you!
It is donors like you that make stories like Charlie’s possible!
Talk about changing lives, Charlie will be a junior this year and has goals and dreams for the first time! He wants to be a veterinarian, to give back and care for animals, to extend the love that he is now being shown to others. He has a huge heart! Charlie is working with people in his life on a plan to meet his goal. Who knows where Charlie would be today if it wasn’t for families like Chuck and Denise?
What a difference a loving and stable resource family makes in the life of a child!
This is what YOU our donors make possible!
Please help us by sending in your best donation! We need to find and certify more families so we can help more kids like Charlie.
Unfortunately, we see cases like Charlie all too often. Teenagers getting ready to age out of foster care with no where to go. We are so thankful that we have families that will open their homes and care for these kids, preparing them to be healthy and successful adults!
In 2023 we lost 22 resource families due to moving, adoptions or other reasons. This is a huge loss for us and part of the reason for turning away so many kids. Finding resource families is a critical need and we cannot do this without your help.
I know you care about children in need. We do not want to turn away kids like Charlie who just need a chance. Please help us by sending in your donation to help us find and train more families like Denise and Chuck!