How to Parent a Traumatized Child

Abby Crooks is a foster and adoptive parent and public school business teacher with a master’s degree in teaching. She is the founder and executive director of Fostering Faithfully, a nonprofit serving children in foster care, foster parents, kinship caregivers and the South Carolina Department of Social Services in Oconee, Pickens, and Anderson counties in Upstate, South Carolina. She and her husband, Jonas, have been raising children (two biological, two adopted from foster care and 46 for a season) for 19 years on a cattle farm. When she is not following kids around or advocating fiercely for foster parents, Crooks can be found on hiking adventures in the great outdoors. To learn more about Fostering Faithfully, email [email protected] or visit fosteringfaithfully.org. You can read more about her fostering and adoption journey in her book, “Simply Available: Unfiltered Truths on the Generous Hospitality of a Foster Care Lifestyle” (https://a.co/d/eDbYJPw).