This week, the Angels’ Arms Junior Board took the many fundraising setbacks they have faced this year due to COVID and turned them into something positive! Jordan Shelton, Angels’ Arms Junior Board president, designed fun Bingo Cards for our Junior Board to post on their Social Media and help raise funds for Angels’ Arms foster children. […]
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As our busiest couple months ever comes to a close, we can’t wait to introduce you to our newest house mother, Kasondra McDaniel! She will be moving into one of our Ballwin homes. Kasondra and Kim, one of our current house parents, are sisters. So not only are we helping foster siblings, but we also […]
The greatest gift you can give us on our 20th birthday is the gift of school supplies! Help us celebrate 20 years of supporting foster families by making a $20 donation and help fulfill our kids’ school supply needs. We currently have 40 school-age children and teens living in our homes and they all need various school supplies […]
With the uncertainty revolving around the upcoming school year, we are anticipating most of the 55 children living in our 13 homes to be learning from home. Wish list ➡️ https://a.co/d2A5qfl The wish list above is comprised of electronics that our families have specifically requested in order to help with their homeschooling. We hope you will consider […]
Like many of you, we have witnessed the protest and community unrest over the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Angels’ Arms would like to express our sincerest condolences to those families. Angels’ Arms cares deeply about the foster parents, children and the communities we serve. We hurt for black and brown […]
Things here at Angels’ Arms are always changing and evolving. As mentioned in one of our previous blog posts, this summer has been dedicated to transitioning several of our homes. Just last week we welcomed the newest residents in one of our St. Louis City homes, the McDevitt’s. Mary and Jim McDevitt have been fostering […]
In addition to assisting our 12 families and older youth/young adults, we are helping four large, local foster families (24 children total) being cared for by single mothers who have been carefully screened and are in dire need of assistance. Please consider purchasing any of these items and dropping them off at the office. While […]
Anne Fisher, Tonja and Cathy Miller have all dedicated their lives to helping children and youth in foster care. The dynamic mother-daughter(s) duo of Tonja and Anne have been a staple in Angels’ Arms’ history and mission. Now, Cathy will be moving into Anne’s Angels’ Arms home as Anne transitions out of fostering children. Cathy […]
There has been a whirlwind of changes here at Angels’ Arms over the past few months – as our friend Olaf from Frozen would say, “all good things, all good things!” We are in the process of transitioning three of our homes for new families. During this season of change, we have gotten to know […]
May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, a time to recognize foster parents, families, volunteers, mentors and child welfare professionals who provide loving homes and resources to children and youth in foster care. Did you know that close to 700 children enter the foster care system every day and currently there are more than 440,000 […]