SOCIAL WORKER

Becky Williams is a Residential Clinical Supervisor with Lydia Home Association

Her husband and she foster-parented for 10 years officially. They became involved with foster-parenting because of their love for working with young people. When they started working with Lydia Home they became aware of a fostering program that was getting started to place 5 young men in a home that Lydia owned. Although they initially tried to talk their friends into being foster parents the Lord used those conversations to confirm their call to fostering. They foster-parented 5 young men in their home and continue in relationship with them as much as possible.

LICENSING REP

Rolinda Robinson the single parent of three adopted children and one biological daughter. She has lived on the west side of Chicago in the Austin community her entire life. She currently works for Children’s home and aid as a case navigator. She has been with the agency for five years. She has been fostering for 29 years until she felt last year she was getting too old to handle the demands of the children needing a home. She became a foster parent after she volunteered at a group home for children who were sexually abused. She became attached to the children and didn’t want to leave when it was time to change different staff.

FOSTER PARENTS

Michal is a stay at home mom and Brian works for Airblox, where he is VP of strategy. Michal grew up in Alaska and Brian in Southern California and met while attending Wheaton College in Illinois. They both love sports, hiking, fishing, and travel. After pursuing music and baseball, respectively, Brian and Michal settled in Chicago. Adoption was always a part of the conversation when it came to their family, but fostering came up more and more as they met many foster families at their church. After having two biological children, a good friend told them that if they are licensed to foster, they can always say yes, but they can’t say yes if they aren’t licensed. So they took the classes and became officially licensed in October 2022. They decided to foster children who are younger than their oldest biological child, who is 4, so they waited a few months and got the call for their first placement in January 2023. As of now, they’ve been the foster parents to two half sisters for 3 months now. Their journey has been beautiful and challenging but they know they are called to care for God’s children and He is equipping them to do so.