Last year, Carla Trier said, the Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange provided over 1,500 services.
Trier is the founder and executive director of the Exchange, and on Friday, she will be recognized as the 2021 Champion for Children during the Sheridan County Light of Hope Celebration.
An annual event of Compass Center for Families, the celebration this year will be a Watch Party starting at noon on Facebook. In a recent interview with Sheridan Media,
Trier said the Foster Parent Exchange has received amazing community support.
The Foster Parent Exchange is a Christian organization that provides needed resources and supplies to foster, adoptive and kinship parents and children. Trier started the Exchange about eight years ago.
Carla Trier, who is the founder and executive director of the Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange, is this year’s Compass Champion for Children.
In a recent interview with Sheridan Media, Trier said the experience is very humbling but added she is grateful for the honor. She talked about how she was led to start the Foster Parent Exchange.
Trier said the Foster Parent Exchange was born four months later in her living room.
The exchange is a Christian organization that serves children in crisis by fostering community resources and supplies that help children feel safe, valued and loved. In the eight years since the organization was formed, it has served foster, adoptive and kinship parents and children.
Fran Feltz, left and Cheryl Roebling displaying a quilt
The Clearmont Women’s Club is keeping an old tradition alive with annual quilting bees, making colorful, warm quilts for many different charities. At one time, every farm wife knew how to quilt, and made colorful quilts for the family beds for warmth. Today, quilts are becoming an art form as well as very usable bedroom accessory.
On Saturday, Jan. 23, around 15 people, 12 Women’s Club members and five other quilters, joined in the fun at the Clearmont Community Center. A large table and frame was set up, and the quilters brought colorful material be sewed into quilts. A pot luck lunch was served at noon.
Students at Normative Services saw tangible evidence of the love and compassion of the Sheridan community this Christmas, thanks to a community present drive spearheaded by Sheridan resident Megg Guthrie.
Clayton Carr, who’s executive director of NSI, a private non-profit program dedicated to helping adolescents dealing with behavioral and emotional problems, said Guthrie started the drive to collect presents starting in late October or early November.
Carr said presents started arriving at NSI around Dec. 20 – and, he said, “just kept coming.”
He said the donors started with around 50 families and eventually involved 80 families that provided gifts.
He said at the start, NSI was expecting three or four presents for each of NSI’s slightly over 50 students, and the final tally was around six or eight presents for each.