Thu, Oct 10
|Lynnwood
Stories of Hope
How Bridge is Rewriting Foster Care
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lynnwood, 3711 196th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036, USA
About The Event
Please join us at our “Stories of Hope” Fall Fundraising Event on October 10th, where we will hear stories of hope and courage from members of the foster care community, and from the children themselves*.
Event is 21 and older. No cost to attend.
Program of Events
6:45 pm - Registration
Hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and bar open
7:00 pm - Welcome
7:15 pm - Program Begins
The Bridge Difference
Panel: Experiencing the Bridge Difference
The Boy from Under a Bridge – a Story of Hope
Invitation to Respond
8:20 pm - Closing Remarks & Thank Yous
Can't attend? Please consider making a financial donation to our "Stories of Hope" campaign.
*Former Bridge residents will be represented through video and audio, in ways that protect their privacy.
Can't attend? You still can help us dream big! Click below to make your Dream Big donation.
EVENT SPEAKERS
Sue Badeau
Sue Badeau is a nationally acclaimed speaker, educator, and child welfare professional working in adoption, foster care, juvenile justice and children’s mental health in both public and private agencies. She has developed curricula on many topics used to prepare professional child welfare staff, adoptive and foster parents, judges, attorneys and youth, and serves on several boards of directors. Sue and her husband Hector are lifetime parents of 22 children— two birthed, twenty adopted—in addition to being foster parents to 75.
Claudia Rowe
Claudia Rowe is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, and the Huffington Post. Claudia is also the author of The Spider and the Fly - a crime memoir awarded the Washington State Book Award in 2018 - and Wards of the State, a riveting new book that explores the foster care to prison pipeline through the true stories of former foster youth across America.
