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Remember those first days of school every year? When you couldn’t wait to show off your new clothes and shoes, see your friends – and maybe even learn a thing or two? Those of us who grew up in stable families fortunate to be able to remember our school years in terms of new clothes, […]
Read MoreBy Elise Heidlebaugh (Ed. Note: This is the first in a series of posts by FTSG super-volunteer and donor Elyse Heidlebaugh. Elyse is eager to start a conversation, so comments are open on this post but will be moderated to keep the spam level to a dull roar.) Warning: This blog post may make you […]
Read Moreby Sonya Mastic, Play It Forward Committee Chair Even though I grew up with my birth family, we had a very limited income. This meant that I didn’t have the same options as the other kids, including the chance to make my dream of taking music lessons come true. But at least I had my […]
Read MoreShe Gives Her Time, Her Money and Her Passion — and Starting This Month She’ll be Blogging About “Our” Foster Children For The Seventh Generation lets me ask what our foster children want, and by doing that it helps me extend my motherhood. Elyse Heidelbaugh of Berkley has been an FTSG donor and volunteer for […]
Read MoreOne Crib, and Two Foster Children’s Lives are Changed… I have always … truly believe[ed] that if a small gesture of kindness or opportunity is given to someone, it has the potential to multiply into great things. I hope that this crib is just the start of good things to come — for both the […]
Read MoreOn Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, the 2nd annual Motor City Songbirds Festival packed and rocked the house at PJ’s Lager House in Corktown – and raised over $1,500 for Play It Forward, For The Seventh Generation’s music program for foster children and teens. Sonya Mastick, the chair of Play It Forward, summed […]
Read MoreDuring our 2014 In Seventh Heaven gala, FTSG Executive Director Lorraine Weber vowed that our organization would double last year’s performance and serve 1,000 Detroit-area foster children, families, and teens in and aging out of the foster care system in 2014. Thanks to YOU, we’re practically halfway there! In first half of this year, YOU […]
Read MoreNear the end of May, FTSG’s Shirley Roseman received an urgent email about a young man in foster care who needed a new pair of glasses. The problem? Thomas Robertson has a light-sensitivity problem, and Medicaid doesn’t reimburse for the transition lenses he needs. Not only that, but Thomas will be “aging out” of the […]
Read MoreWith the help of our very generous donors, For The Seventh Generation’s first Busy Bee Book Fair for Detroit-area foster children and teens served over 170 young people as part of the Wayne County Department of Human Service’s Summer Safety Extravaganza on June 18. FTSG’s Help Closet Coordinator Shirley Roseman had this to say about […]
Read MoreThis week (and through June 13) we’re collecting books — particularly books for teens — for our Busy Bee Book Fair For Foster Kids, which will take place on June 18 as part of Wayne County DHS’s “Summer Safety Extravaganza.” In addition, we’re facing a critical, ongoing shortage of beds and cribs. These items are […]
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