“When my phone rang, I didn’t expect the voice on the other end to change everything. ‘We have an 11-year-old boy who needs emergency placement for the weekend,’ said my social worker. His story was heartbreaking—first abandoned at age 2, then taken in by an adoptive family who now, after 9 years, left him alone in a hospital with no explanation and no intention of coming back. He believed they’d be his forever home. That trust was shattered. I asked quietly, ‘What’s the plan for him now?’ Her reply was bleak: there were no relatives, no foster beds open—only a group facility. I knew I had to say yes.”
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