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Expanding Support for Mississippi Families Through Foster Care Licensing

A New Chapter for Sunnybrook For more than 60 years, Sunnybrook Children’s Home has provided stability for Mississippi’s most vulnerable youth. “Now, with a new state license in hand, Sunnybrook is ready to expand that care to not only more children but also to...

Sunnybrook Awarded CPS Licensing Contract, Positioned as Model for Foster Care Reform in Mississippi

New designation expands foster care capacity while merging compassion and reform to meet one of the state’s greatest needs Sunnybrook Children’s Home has been awarded a contract by the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services (MDCPS) to serve as a licensed...

Senator Roger Wicker Celebrates Ric and Kim Jordan as an Angels in Adoption® Honoree to be Recognized at National Event in 2025

PRESS RELEASE Senator Roger Wicker will celebrate Ric and Kim Jordan as a 2025 Angels in Adoption® Honoree for their outstanding advocacy for foster children across Mississippi. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which coordinates the Angels in...
Back to School: Help Unlock the Future for Foster Youth

Back to School: Help Unlock the Future for Foster Youth

The promise of another school year is upon us, and the youth at Sunnybrook are preparing for their next academic adventure. As they look ahead to a new class schedule with new teachers, the opportunity for a brighter, more educated future has the power to alter the...

A Sunnybrook Success Story: Welcomed Back with Open Arms

A Sunnybrook Success Story: Welcomed Back with Open Arms

Swaying back and forth on the porch swing in the backyard of her teenage home, Deondra Willis reflected on her experience at Sunnybrook, a residential campus supporting foster youth ages 16-24. Her journey began five years ago when she found herself standing in front...

Sunnybrook Houseparents: Hospitality at the Front Lines of Faith

Sunnybrook Houseparents: Hospitality at the Front Lines of Faith

Sunnybrook houseparents serve an essential role in our ministry, building a Christian foundation with our residents and shepherding them into a productive life. Human connection has the power to change lives. Its consistent presence helps lay the foundation for key...

Harry’s Take: My Foster Family Saved My Life

Harry’s Take: My Foster Family Saved My Life

Learning the True Meaning of Family Thinking back on it nearly six decades later, Harry Liggett can describe his home life in nine simple words that hold an ocean of meaning: “Things were not well and life was not good.” At times, Liggett’s household included a...

Win-Win With Sunnybrook: Donate Today, Reduce Your Tax Bill

Win-Win With Sunnybrook: Donate Today, Reduce Your Tax Bill

Every day across Mississippi, the Sunnybrook team provides programs and facilities to help loving families nurture foster children within a stable, Christian environment.  The impact of services like ours has been measured in the most important ways, as the...

Combating Poverty and Socioeconomic Injustice in the City

Combating Poverty and Socioeconomic Injustice in the City

 At Sunnybrook, you will find a classroom filled with sheets of paper taped to the walls, each one written on with different colored sharpies and post-it notes. This is the classroom where Sunnybrook residents come weekly to participate in two courses: Work Life...

Trauma’s Traffic

Trauma’s Traffic

Driving in a foreign country can be a daunting task.  No matter how much you prepare before going, once you’re behind the wheel traveling in an unfamiliar environment, you know the rules have changed.  Although you’re legally allowed to drive and can easily...

A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

Andrew stepped in to Emily’s Sunnybrook bedroom to take photos for the magazine shoot. Joyful shouts of the girls playing in the living room echoed throughout the house as he worked to get the perfect shots to tell Sunnybrook’s story. Almost everything in 11 year old...

Stories From the Hill: The Sanks Family

Stories From the Hill: The Sanks Family

Sunset Hill is the hospitality home of Sunnybrook Cares, a ministry supporting foster families.  Michael and Meg Sanks live with their five children in Fort Worth, Texas. Four of their children are biological and one child is adopted through the foster care...

Stories From the Hill: The Walker Family

Stories From the Hill: The Walker Family

Sunset Hill is the hospitality home of Sunnybrook Cares, a ministry supporting foster families.  By Suzanne Walker Lee and I became foster parents in 2015, while we still lived in Clinton, MS. We had one biological daughter, Esther. I worked part-time from home,...

A Sunnybrook Christmas

A Sunnybrook Christmas

As the holiday season rolls in and we make plans for our children, we are continually reminded of what Christmas is all about. We desire for Christmas to be a celebration of God’s gift to the world- Jesus- while also providing practical and special...

CPS Adoption Day Celebration 2019

CPS Adoption Day Celebration 2019

The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services came to Sunnybrook Children's Home to celebrate a record year of adoptions in the state of Mississippi on Saturday, August 24, 2019. Mississippi finalized 657 adoptions this year. The event included food, bounce...

2019 Champions for Children Dinner

2019 Champions for Children Dinner

We hope that you will join us on September 26, 2019 for our 4th Annual Champions for Children Dinner!  This night at The Country Club of Jackson with Guest Speaker Deborah Bryant will feature a silent auction and a dinner celebrating what God has done in the past...

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