Bethany Durham

For almost 20 years, Doug Hoskins has fostered boys as a single dad. He also has experience with therapeutic foster care, which serves youth who must be medically approved for placement and require more help with mental, emotional and behavioral health needs.

For almost 20 years, Doug Hoskins has fostered boys as a single dad. He also has experience with therapeutic foster care, which serves youth who must be medically approved for placement and require more help with mental, emotional and behavioral health needs.

Even early on in his career, Doug Hoskins had a deep understanding of kids and a passion for helping them. Before becoming a foster parent, Doug worked at boarding schools in North Carolina.

Kim always enjoyed the feeling she got from drinking alcohol. But when she started spending more time drinking than working, things took a turn for the worse.

When she was young, Julie Burris would listen to “The Little Girl” by John Michael Montgomery, a song about a girl in foster care. She’d imagine the impact she could make on that little girl’s life by becoming a foster parent, not knowing this dream would one day come to fruition.