She just kind of gave me this smile…
Fox17 West Michigan interviewed Stacey Goodson, a foster parent with on of our partner agencies. Lauren Edwards of Fox17 writes:
“The moment Stacey Goodson met Mimi back in 2016, she thought to herself ‘Oh great, I’m keeping another one’.
They had similar personalities and just clicked.
Goodson laughs when she thinks about it now.
‘She just kind of gave me this smile and it just kind of like hooked me in,’ Goodson said during a Zoom interview on Thursday. ‘It just kind of like hooked me.’
She said Mimi, who was 12 years old at the time, was only supposed to stay one night at her home as her foster family was out of town due to an emergency. However, that family wasn’t into long-term foster care but Goodman was. So, she took her in.
‘She was in another foster home before coming here, so like in between [homes],’ Goodson said. ‘So, of course it gave her a little bit of mistrust of adults. It’s like ‘Why do these people keep having me move.’ So, that definitely created some struggles at first of getting her to try to trust us and trust that she wasn’t going to have to go anywhere.” But overtime, Mimi began trusting Goodson. A few years later, Goodson adopted her.”
Goodson goes on to share how she first became a foster parent, what it’s like to foster teens, the need for foster parents, and the benefits of foster care for the both the caregivers and the children.
Read the full article (and watch the interview) here.
