Each 111Project Family Advocacy Tour walks participants through places where lives are being transformed every day. Every stop tells a story and allows guests to experience the full spectrum of child welfare and family advocacy in our own community. From prevention to stabilization to wrap-around care, we see what it looks like to surround families in their most vulnerable moments. Participants are educated, equipped, and reminded that everyone can do something.
From a participant:
“Foster care has been in my world for much of my life. My parents were foster parents when I was a teenager, and my husband and I were also foster parents for 5 years. In addition, for the last 4 years I have worked with an organization that mentors foster parents. With all this prior knowledge of foster care and available resources, I still learned a lot on the bus tour. It was very eye-opening. It was very beneficial to be on the tour with other like-minded people from different churches all across the city who want to make a difference in the world of foster care.
I think it could also be very beneficial for a bus to be filled with members of just one church so that members of one congregation can share the burden and see the need together, then brainstorm how their congregation can work together to meet needs of families in their communities.”
~Tara Summers, West Tulsa Church
