Leilani Johnson is foster care licensor for Franklin County.
Need for nurturing Foster parents bridge gap for children in need Story by ALISON JAMES Photos CONTRIBUTED
Amy McCollum celebrates friend Faith Hill’s adoption of three siblings from foster care: Isac, Sadie and Daniel.
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May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, shining a light on the system that connects loving families with children who have been removed from their homes by the Department of Human Resources, for any number of reasons. It’s a reality Leilani Johnson has seen firsthand from multiple angles, as a former
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ore than 6,000. More than 600. That’s the approximate number of children in foster care and the average number of days spent in foster care in Alabama, respectively.
