It’s SCARY being a little boy alone in foster care but it’s TERRIFYING to be a little boy almost completely deaf and alone in foster care! Everything is so new, confusing, and hard to understand….so much doesn’t make sense. It takes really special foster parents to navigate this

LITTLE MISS ELLIE ASLEEP FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN HER VERY FIRST BED EVER!!!! Nationwide, over 2.8 children don’t have a bed to sleep in. Instead, they sleep on the floor or a couch or a chair. This is referred to as “bed poverty” and child “bedlessness” is now a recognized

Just a few months away from retirement, Kinship Grandparents went from a simple family of two adults to a family of six, after giving their 4 small grandchildren a trauma free home. These 4 little ones had been through so much and the struggle to get custody from their drug

…..10 miles from their grocery store, 32 miles from their doctors and their therapists at Children’s Hospital, 8 miles from their laundry mat and now this rural kinship grandma’s car had broken down. Grandma and grandkids found themselves stranded and isolated, not able to

“It’s an emergency situation, will you take her? She needs a place tonight!” That was the phone call a fostercare couple received one late afternoon last week. Not yet a year old, a little girl had been terribly neglected. The couple, who already had several foster kids, quickly

His friends questioned his sanity. What he was going to do would change his whole life! But, for this barely 23-year-old young man, he had no doubt that he needed to become the legal guardian of his two younger brothers instead of letting his mother's, all-consuming drug abuse,

Born at just 28 weeks gestation. Jeremy was born with multiple kinds of drugs in his little body. His mother was brought into the hospital in the middle of a drug induced seizer. To save both their lives, Jeremy was delivered. They didn’t have high hopes that Jeremy would survive

YOU ARE INVITED!! (Full Details/ Ticket Sales in link below) The kids and families in Foster & Kinship Care need you now more then ever! Please consider joining our Varner foundation board and team at our 2nd Annual “Bringing Home A Win” Fundraiser this May 10 at Belterra Park.

Dealing with RED TAPE is terribly annoying for everyone, but for a certain family it came close to causing 2 young children to go into foster care. After having been severely, unimaginably abused by their custodial parent, the children’s non-custodial parent was awarded custody.

The baby no one wanted …. until someone did! Giving up his single life, downsizing to a smaller apartment in order to afford childcare while he worked, baby clothes, formula and other necessities, this young great uncle sacrifced a lot to became a new father. The only thing he

The Varner Foundations Fundraiser May 10 is officially SOLD OUT!! Thank you for all your support!! facebook.com/share/v/1ARwFP…

"I'm just not sure we can do this anymore. I love this kid, and we want it to work but we just don't know how." Each year hundreds of foster parents ask that the child they are fostering be "rehomed". The decision for this is complicated, varied, and multi-layered but overall,

For the men and women that sacrificed ALL for us! We will not forget you. ❤️ Varnerfoundation.org

YOUR DONOR DOLLARS AT WORK! “He was as confused as a 4 years old could be, and so frightened … and just like that, I was thrust into the world of parenting and the child welfare system – court dates, case plans, attorneys, and parental visits, to become my grandson’s Kinship

Caring for three young grandkids, who have only known a trauma filled life of parental drug abuse, physical abuse and neglect. So many extra expenses on a fixed income! Multiple weekly trips to therapists, doctors, school, etc. So, when this grandma's only mode of

Each year in Hamilton County alone, over a hundred teens leave Foster Care and become instantly homeless but not this kid!! "She doesn't have a chance!" is what they said when she was placed in foster care at age 14. Now 19, she worked harder than most and graduated from High

One of the ABSOLUTE BEST things the Varner Foundation’s donors make happen, is to STAND IN THE RESOURCE GAP to help enable good Foster/Kinship families TO STAY TOGETHER! Fact: Half the families in the U. S. who start to foster will give it up in the first year due to lack of

“She didn’t talk to us for the first 4 days. She did what we asked, ate what we offered her, never smiled, or cried, but watched everything and everyone like a hawk. We were her 2nd foster home in this 5-year-old’s life and it was clear that she trusted no one or nothing. All

“Now what?” said the exhausted voice of an older woman at Goodwill in front of me in the checkout line. After a few words with her, I realized she was a new kinship grandma with three small grandchildren, and she needed a crib asap but there wasn’t one and buying new just wasn’t