Double the Impact: Why Your End-of-Year Gift to OCA Matters in 2025 Year-end giving often comes from a place of reflection—what mattered this year, and how can I invest in what lasts? At OCA, we believe that 2025 is the moment to build for tomorrow. By giving now, you do more than support ongoing programs: you help set up transformation …
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What Does Hope Look Like? Sometimes hope looks like a crib delivered to a family with a newborn. Sometimes it looks like a bus pass that helps a grandmother keep her job. Hope can even look like a pair of welding pants for a teenager learning a trade. Recently, OCA Gateway volunteers carried hope into homes across Kentucky and southern …
Five Ways to Help Children Feel Belonging This Holiday Season. The holidays are often described as “the most wonderful time of the year.” For many foster and adoptive families, however, this season can carry mixed emotions. While the rest of the world gears up for cozy traditions and picture-perfect gatherings, children who have walked through loss and instability may find …
From Chaos to Calm: A Five-Week Turnaround Five weeks. That’s all it took for Carson’s* story to begin changing. When he first met his OCA Life Coach, James, in early September 2025, life was turbulent. Carson had been expelled from school after a series of angry outbursts – even throwing chairs when frustration took over. He was confined to his …
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A Birthday that Almost Wasn’t Birthdays are meant to be celebrated. Thanks to OCA Life Coach Sherry Wood, one young woman was able to feel truly seen and loved on her 17th birthday. When plans at her residential fell through, Sherry stepped in to make sure her day didn’t go unnoticed. Sherry arranged a surprise dinner at Roosters. She invited …
We Don’t Talk About Orphan Care Enough, and That Has to Change. It’s inconvenient and hard. Many people want to ignore it: God’s call to care for the Fatherless. Even though it is woven throughout Scripture, it’s largely ignored. You can find it in Exodus 22, Proverbs 23, Isaiah 1 and in other passages. It’s so important to God …
Meet Emily Smith, our passionate and joy-filled intern from Moody Bible Institute. When Emily began looking for an internship to complete her Crisis and Trauma Care degree, she did what many students do—she turned to Google. But what she found wasn’t just any internship. It was a calling. “I googled ‘family preservation ministries,’ and when Orphan Care Alliance popped …
Parenting children through adoption, relative or foster care comes with unique challenges—it’s beautiful, but it’s hard. That’s why the Lexington OCA Connect group exists. Led by experienced professionals, Joan Miller (Director of School Based and Clinical Counseling, Provision) and Amy Kinnell (Adoption Specialist, Adoption Assistance, Inc.), the group welcomes parents at any stage of the adoption or foster care process. …
