Saving Michael

How Rescuing a "Throwaway" Child Turned Me into a Foster-Care Advocate

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Pub Date 15 Apr 2023 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2023
Rowman & Littlefield | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Foster children are society’s throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look into Keri Vellis’ struggle to secure the best possible services for two severely abused and traumatized siblings. Some doors opened, but too many closed during her ten-year journey as the voice for children in her care who have no voice of their own within the current system. Readers get a glimpse of Keri and her family’s day-to-day life as she went from mother of three to adoptive mother of three more children and then the temporary caregiver of another seventeen.

Saving Michael delves into issues bigger than one family’s experiences and determination. Now an author and child advocate, Vellis provides a profoundly personal look into what it takes to get the best for each of the children she’s had in her care. Her journey started from the first day of her first foster care situation and the urgent need for diagnoses and treatment. It continued despite the many obstacles thrown in her path to securing services for the vulnerable children in her family’s care. Along the way, she details the many ups and downs, challenges and triumphs, her whole family experienced as part of the foster care system. All children deserve permanent, safe homes. The effort to obtain those for every child is a tremendous one not for the faint-hearted. But the rewards reverberate for everyone when it works. Follow Keri and her family on this heartfelt journey of love and persistence.

Keri Vellis and her husband Teddy are passionate and involved parents of six children. Although Keri began her career in the dental field, her life changed dramatically in 2013 when she and her husband became foster parents. Keri has now spent several years in the child-welfare arena and has dealt with both public and private agencies and school systems. She’s worked with individual social workers along with various medical and therapeutic specialists, always advocating for children who can’t speak for themselves. She lives with her family in Owens Cross Roads, Alabama.

Foster children are society’s throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look into Keri Vellis’ struggle to secure the best possible...


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This is a set of uncorrected page proofs. It is not a finished book and is not expected to look like one. Errors in spelling, page length, format and...


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ISBN 9781538168684
PRICE $32.00 (USD)
PAGES 211

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