events
2008 Spring Fling & Auction at Manor House - March 29, 2008 - $153,000 Raised!
 
St. Joseph Orphanage Golf Classic at Shaker Run Golf Club - June 17, 2008 - Sponsors: Microsoft, Ciber, IBM and Oracle
 
news
Bethel Tate Middle School Art Club Makes Stuffed Animals for SJO - Jamie Bischoff's Art Club  
 
GE Continues Partnership WIth SJO in 2008 - 
 
Kids Giving to Kids: A Wonderful Thing! - St. Thomas More School Children Collect $2,000 for SJO
 
New Transitional Living Building Dedicated in January - Altercrest Community Transitional Program For Boys
 
Duran Duran Guitar Auctioned for $1,000 at Spring Fling - .Guitar Was One of Auction's Highlights
 
Seeking Sponsors to Send Kids to Camp in 2008 - Therapeutic and Traditional Camps   
 
A Record Year for Christmas Donations Again ! - Many Donors Come Bearing Gifts
 
View the St. Joseph Orphanage PSA - Just Click on the Link
 
spotlight services
 
A FOSTER PARENT'S STORY

The telephone rang late in the afternoon. "Hello, we have a placement for you. A young male age 12 has been in a group home for the past 6 months. He has been in foster care since he was 4 years old and in a multitude of homes due to his behavior."  It did not take me long to answer," Yes, we have room for another child. When do you want to place him?"  It was no surprise to me when she said, "In the next hour.  Can you be ready?" Our new son arrived that next hour. He was shy and unsure of himself, and not too sure that he wanted to be part of our family.


In the next few months, he was running and laughing and calling us Mom and Dad. We got him a dog and he spent hours building his dog the ugliest doghouse you ever saw. We had many ups and downs with him over the next 6 years, but in the end he graduated with honors from a technical school as a carpenter.  He has been able to put his life back together and to heal. When he turned 18 he located his birth parents and reestablished contact with them. He has decided to not go back to the kind of life that they have, but to go on and make a better life for his own family. Yes, I have my first foster-grandchild.



Click on the link above to read the rest of "A Foster Parent Story".