Connecting children with families & keeping families connected
Letter from the executive director
Hope Begins When Someone Shows Up
Every day across the Archdiocese, I witness something sacred: the quiet, often unnoticed ways that hope is born — not through grand gestures but through simple acts of kindness.
Kathy Fowler Executive Director
Winter 2026 Newsletter
Shepherds Watch
In Winter 2026 Shepherd’s Watch, meet Stephanie—one foster mom who refused to let a traumatized teen be moved. When a door opens, hope begins again.
Latest Stories
Meet the families and foster parents behind the stories, and see how Good Shepherd helps children find safety, support, and belonging.
Featured Story
Hope Grows When Someone Steps Up: A Journey into Treatment Foster Care
Stephanie is a mother of three grown biological children, an IT professional and a rural Missourian. But for the girls she’s fostered through Catholic Charities Children and Family Support service line ministry Good Shepherd, Stephanie is much more: a steady presence. A safe place. The woman she herself needed as a child.
March 19, 2026
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