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The Adoptions Together Work of Heart Super Saturday event is held the first Saturday of each month at a confidential location.  At the event, foster parents drop off their foster children to enjoy a number of activities like bowling, board games, computer time, playing basketball or football and watching movies.  They are also provided breakfast, lunch and a snack.  Super Saturday is intended to be fun for foster children while allowing their foster parents time to run errands and enjoy a child free day.

Joyce Trimuel has been a part of the Adoptions Together Work of Heart Program for ten months.  Joyce has provided respite care to several children and given generous Christmas presents to over 25 children in the program.  Most recently, she donated backpacks and school supplies to all of the children who attended our Super Saturdays event.  We asked Joyce what motivated her to be an active giver:

My husband and I became therapeutic foster parents in 2003.  We initially provided care to teenage boys ages 15 and up.  I believe the sweetest children we provided foster care to were our teenage boys.

Did you know that foster parents in DC have to provide twenty four hour care to children in foster care?  Only another foster parent can provide care to foster children and when care is provided, the primary foster parent has to pay the respite foster parents for services.