[RAYS YOUTH SERVICES] Host Homes: What Are They and How Do They Help?

June 1, 2023

A Safe Place For Youth Through a federal Runaway and Homeless Youth grant, Foundations Health and Wholeness provides a Host Home program through their RAYS Youth Services Program. Foster homes that are licensed through any of Foundations branch offices throughout

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IN THE NEWS: Foundations Health & Wholeness and the Bay Area Workforce Development Board Host BREAKING THE STIGMA Event

January 10, 2023

Recently, Foundations Health & Wholeness partnered with the Bay Area Workforce Development Board and Youth Advisory Council to host special event called BREAKING THE STIGMA, which featured a screening of the moving stories of young adults who have since aged

A Hero Lies Within All Of Us

January 13, 2022

About a week ago, Nicole K., Foundations foster care case worker extraordinaire, was scrolling through the internet to relax (as we all do) and stumbled upon a link that caught her attention. She found herself nodding along as a person

Fostering Teens – It Was Meant To Be!

August 28, 2021

When we asked Foundations Foster Parent Denise McGinnis what made her choose to foster tween and teen girls, she laughs and tells us that it wasn’t really a choice. It just sort of happened – as though it was meant

Doing Our Best ~ A Mantra for Fostering Teens

August 11, 2021

Fostering a teen can be a challenge, but it’s also, one of the most rewarding vocations you can ever get into. It’s very rewarding for us to work with a teen and see them flourish from getting the love, understanding

Honoring Ethics in Action Recipient Denise McGinnis

December 23, 2020

Denise McGinnis is a Foster Care by Foundations foster mom who was nominated for an Ethie by our Fox Valley Region Foster Care Director, Jess Drews. In her nearly 6 years working in the foster care system, Jess knows first-hand

A Home for the Holidays

September 15, 2020

A loving space, a safe have, a home. These are the holiday wishes of children throughout Wisconsin. Now more than ever, children and teens in foster care need foster parents! Foundations is the ideal foster care organization. As a nonprofit

The 4 Ps of Surviving – And Thriving In – A Pandemic Summer with Kids

June 25, 2020

The combination of Brittany Freund’s titles in life makes her the ideal person to chat about how to make the most of the summer of 2020. Brittany is a mom to 4-year old, Braxon. She also has a Master’s in

The Need for Foster Homes in Northeast Wisconsin is On The Rise

June 23, 2020

We’re in the news! Local news stations, WBAY and Fox 11, helped us spread the message about the growing need for foster homes in Northeast Wisconsin. Check out both segments: WBAY – The need for foster parents increases during the

Foster Parents Needed in Your Community

June 9, 2020

Foundations Health & Wholeness is seeking families who are interested in becoming foster parents for children and teens in our community. Since the beginning of the year, and the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foundations has experienced a record number

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