Counting On Us

12. Knowing When to Ask for Help

Life Project client, Jeremiah, recalls a year spent moving four different times and ending up living in an abandoned college dorm. Explaining in detail what challenges arise for those living through housing instability. Also, LIFE Project mentor, Thad McCall, explains how clients often arrive on autopilot and the work it takes to build a connection, so clients trust them enough to ask for help.  Counting On Us is hosted and produced by Daniel Treviño Like to Support ACH? Visit ACHservices.org/Donate  Want to Connect? Send us a Text Message. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2181278/open_sms] Support the show [https://achservices.org/en/get-involved/give-now/donate-now/]

11. Discovering Your Inner Strength

After experiencing homelessness and family separation, Alex arrives at ACH feeling lost and closed off to everyone. Bit by bit, Alex's life begins to change as she learns to trust herself and the power of her voice. Counting On Us is hosted and produced by Daniel Treviño Like to Support ACH? Visit ACHservices.org/Donate  Want to Connect? Send us a Text Message. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2181278/open_sms] Support the show [https://achservices.org/en/get-involved/give-now/donate-now/]

09. Practicing Hope Through Patience

Following a series of failed foster home placements, Tabitha arrives at ACH’s Youth Emergency Shelter fed up with being misunderstood and ignored. In no time, Tabitha begins to experience what it’s like to be acknowledged and her talents allowed to shine.    Counting On Us is hosted and produced by Daniel Treviño Like to Support ACH? Visit ACHservices.org/Donate Want to Connect? Send us a Text Message. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2181278/open_sms] Support the show [https://achservices.org/en/get-involved/give-now/donate-now/]

10. Creating Space for Youth Voice

Peaches and Dionne talk about the importance of foster care youth to have a voice in their own life. Peaches reflects on Tabitha’s journey with family reunification and talks about her experience in ACH’s Youth Emergency Shelter and Morris Program. Dionne highlights the treatment side of Morris and the challenges Peaches and Tabitha faced while living on the ACH campus. Counting On Us is hosted and produced by Daniel Treviño Like to Support ACH? Visit ACHservices.org/Donate Want to Connect? Send us a Text Message. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2181278/open_sms] Support the show [https://achservices.org/en/get-involved/give-now/donate-now/]

08. The Right Support Transforms Care

For the past 44 years, Arquilla Walker has taken care of nine children, eight of them from the same family, and none of them related to her by blood. Now 61 years old, Arquilla speaks on her experience raising children without a support system and how everything changed once ACH’s Kinship Connections came into her life. Also, Kinship Connections own Stacy Ladd and Becca Cadena share how they build trust with clients and work to meet their needs.    Counting On Us is hosted and produced by Daniel Treviño Like to Support ACH? Visit ACHservices.org/Donate Want to Connect? Send us a Text Message. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2181278/open_sms] Support the show [https://achservices.org/en/get-involved/give-now/donate-now/]