In honor of foster care awareness month, Tracy Wood has joined us to kickoff a series of episodes on the heart-wrenching, cup filling, love inspiring reality of fostering a child with a disability or special health care need.
Having fostered dozens of children, Tracy shares that the secret to a happy child and a successful foster placement is to surround the child and their biological family with a village. Tracy goes into the details of how her relationship with her son's biological mother was transformed and of the person that benefits the most from their friendship...Gavin.
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Sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Maternal, Child, and Family Health/Children with Special Health Care Needs Program and the West Virginia Family 2 Family Health Information Center and Produced by the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities.
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