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Describes what being a foster mom is really like, the effects of foster care on the whole family, and how the foster care system fails severely abused children.

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Describes what being a foster mom is really like, the effects of foster care on the whole family, and how the foster care system fails severely abused children.

Foster children are society's throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look at Keri Vellis's struggle to secure the best possible services for two severely abused and traumatized siblings. Listeners get a glimpse of Keri and her family's day-to-day life as she went from mother of three to adoptive mother of three more children and then the temporary caregiver of another seventeen.

Saving Michael delves into issues bigger than one family's experiences and determination. Now an author and child advocate, Vellis provides a profoundly personal look into what it takes to get the best for each of the children she's had in her care. Her journey started from the first day of her first foster care situation and the urgent need for diagnoses and treatment. Along the way, she details the many ups and downs, challenges and triumphs, her whole family experienced as part of the foster care system. All children deserve permanent, safe homes. The effort to obtain those for every child is a tremendous one not for the faint-hearted. But the rewards reverberate for everyone when it works.

Saving Michael

How Rescuing a "Throwaway Child" Turned Me into a Foster Care Advocate

Author Keri Vellis

Narrated by Carlotta Brentan

Publication date Jul 18, 2023

Running time 8 hrs 25 min

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