Elizabeth Moore loves seeing youngsters thrive regardless of life’s challenges

Elizabeth Moore is the foster care and community engagement coordinator for Marion County Children Services.  She and her husband, Ben, are co-directors of Royal Family Kids Marion.

Elizabeth Moore is the foster care and neighborhood engagement coordinator for Marion County Youngsters Providers. She and her husband, Ben, are co-directors of Royal Household Children Marion.

She has a coronary heart for youths. That led to a profession.

“As I little one my household cared for foster youngsters,” recalled Elizabeth Moore. “My dad labored at a homeless shelter in Columbus, and I spent summers, breaks and holidays going to downtown Columbus and spending time there. I helped reply telephones, performed playing cards with the individuals who lived there, and even spent a birthday serving dinner to my pals on the shelter. My dad is the primary social employee I bear in mind, even when he by no means held the title. He gave me a glimpse of residing a life that allowed you to present to others. However I do not suppose I even knew what youngsters’s companies had been.”

In the present day, Moore works at Marion County Youngsters Providers because the foster care and neighborhood engagement coordinator.

“I get to focus my efforts on recruiting and retaining foster households, in addition to being out in the neighborhood and spreading the message of what the company does,” she defined.

“I convey a singular perspective as a former foster father or mother,” Moore added. “I wish to suppose it permits me to grasp the wants of foster households. Foster parenting is a tough however very rewarding and crucial function. It is not for everybody. However when individuals are capable of step up of their neighborhood, the distinction is super.”

Moore initially grew up in Marion, then New Bloomington. She graduated from Elgin Excessive College in 2003.

“I had no concept what I needed to do,” she stated, “and spent a number of money and time making an attempt to determine it out. I moved round to Florida and Indiana, and ultimately landed again in Marion. I knew I did not wish to simply be in Marion, I needed to be concerned in Marion.

“I ultimately met my husband,” Moore continued, “and shortly after we had been married, we volunteered for a camp, Royal Household KIDS. My grandmother had been making an attempt to get us on board for a very long time and we lastly stated sure. One among my largest regrets shouldn’t be saying sure sooner. That summer season was life-changing for each of us. We returned dwelling and pursued changing into foster dad and mom, and I began alongside the trail of social work.”

Moore enrolled within the social work program at Ohio State in Marion and commenced her profession with Marion County Youngsters Providers as an intern. After finishing her grasp’s, she joined the location unit in 2019 and have become the foster care and neighborhood engagement coordinator in 2020.

“Elizabeth conjures up others by means of her motion,” assessed Jacqueline Ringer, govt director of Marion County Youngsters Providers. “She’s all the time keen to share her expertise and sources with others and by no means backs down from a problem. What units Elizabeth aside is her capacity to not solely suppose large however make it work with restricted sources. Elizabeth’s ardour and dedication leaves an enduring impression on anybody lucky to be in her presence.”

“My coronary heart is actually with youngsters,” Moore responded, “particularly youngsters who’ve had a tough previous. I really like believing in them and seeing them flourish. My religion has actually opened the door for the trail I adopted. I might have by no means deliberate this life, however I do not suppose I might have ever deliberate a greater one.”

Marion County Youngsters Providers is situated at 1680 Marion-Waldo Highway in Marion. For extra data, go to marionkids.com.

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This text initially appeared on Marion Star: Elizabeth Moore’s coronary heart for youths and foster households