Juanita B.
She has been fostering children through Catholic Guardian Services for over 35 years as a single parent. During this time she has fostered over 30 children and has adopted 3. Watch her story here and see why she chooses Catholic Guardian Services.
Carol V.
She credits Catholic Guardian Services with giving her the knowledge and support in order to become a confident and successful foster parent. She enjoys being a foster parent because of the rewarding feeling it gives her to know she helped make a difference in a child’s life by helping them realize their potential and worth.
Annie R.
Her foster parent journey started when she adopted her niece through the kinship program. Since then, she has fostered many other children over the past 13 years including those with autism and other particular or special needs. She has given her love and attention to the foster children and the love they give back in return is one of the reasons she continues to foster.
Elsa P.
She has been a foster parent for about 6 years and believes that being a foster parent is to love these children in this life because they are important. She has witnessed first hand how these childrens’ lives have been transformed in a positive way through fostering with love, patience and care and in turn feels it has made her a better mother to her biological children.
Francis R.
Francis was introduced to CGS when she fostered her grandson through the kinship foster care program. After her positive experience with CGS’s kinship program, she decided to continue to be a foster parent for other children through one of their non kinship programs. She is amazed at how much she has unexpectedly learned from these young children and the impact they have made on her life.
The Hurtado Family
Watch the video testimonial of the Hurtado family and their experiences of being foster care parents through Catholic Guardian Services.
Bronx Couple Fosters COVID Positive Baby
The Bronx Daily, Author: Jonas Bronck, posted April 30,2020
As we all come together to recognize frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to highlight another group of heroes during this crisis: foster parents.
Foster parents provide safe, loving homes for vulnerable children in New York City. Now more than ever, we need their support and a local couple from the Bronx stepped up to answer the call to become foster parents.
Earlier this month the couple, whose privacy we will protect by calling them Jennifer and George, became first-time foster parents to a baby who had tested positive for COVID-19. His name will also be protected by calling him Daniel.
Jennifer and George recently became licensed foster parents with Catholic Guardian Services. Shortly after completing the process, they received a call earlier this month concerning a baby who had tested positive for COVID-19. Almost immediately, they decided that it was their responsibility to care for this baby, even temporarily, so that he would not have to remain in the hospital. The couple has always wanted to help a child in need, and knew this was their chance to make a difference.
Jennifer and George took great interest in Daniel’s wellbeing while he was in their home. They made sure to take him to follow up medical appointments and worked closely with the agency to ensure that the child’s mother was comforted in knowing that he was being well cared for.
Jennifer and George shared that during this new normal it has taught them that it is “possible to slow down” and that “everything can change in a second but that we can still help one another no matter what and no matter how far apart we are”.
