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  • 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.

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    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.