The Daily News: A foster mother's journey: Schultz family helps Onslow County children
May is National Foster Care Month, and one Onslow County woman is doing her part, both at home and at work, for the many local children in the foster care system.
Kate Schultz grew up in Raleigh, but moved to Jacksonville in 2016 with her husband, an active-duty Marine. She has a master's degree in trauma-informed education and is the director of development for the Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina.
The family-led nonprofit supports children and youth in foster care and the dedicated families and professionals that care for them. Schultz and her husband are foster parents, having fostered close to 20 children since 2019, around half of whom stayed with the couple long term.
The couple also has an adopted son and a little girl they're in the process of adopting, as well as an 18-year-old who, although she's aged out of the system, still lives with them, along with her 2-year-old son.
"I think my foster journey actually started long before I ever really realized it," Schultz said. "Growing up, my family took in my cousin through an informal kinship arrangement in Ohio, and so, he felt a lot more like a brother to me than my cousin.
