Feeling Wanted, Love & Safe: Stories to Change the Lives of Children in Foster Care… FOR THE BETTER!
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Comfort Cases is so lucky to have many friends and supporters from around the world. In 2022 we opened our first international center, Comfort CasesUK (https://comfortcasesuk.org/). On today’s episode, we welcome a guest from England, our friend Kevin Leslie.
Kevin is known for many movie and tv roles, most recently appearing in the Christmas movie: Christmas at the Holly Day Inn. Today on Fostering Change, Rob Scheer talks to Kevin about the new children’s books series he wrote, Granddad Brian & His Stories.
Kevin wrote these books as a creative way of dealing with loss and grief, following the loss of his grandfather to covid. His grandfather loved telling stories and Kevin wanted to share the warmth from his “granddad” with children around the world. He partnered with Comfort Cases and has donated numerous books to our center in the UK!
We know you’ll enjoy today’s episode!
To find out more about Kevin, please visit him on social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevinLeslieActor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinleslieactor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheKevinLeslie
If interested in getting one of Kevin’s books, reach out to him directly at: https://www.instagram.com/grandadbrianstories/
If interested in making a donation to our center in the UK, please visit: https://www.justgiving.com/comfortcasesuk
A reminder that Fostering Change now posts on alternative Tuesdays. So our next episode will drop on Tuesday, January 30. You can always catch up on previous episodes of Fostering Change by visiting www.comfortcases.org/podcast or your favorite podcast outlets.
If you have any comments, questions, or guest suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Please write to us at [email protected].
As always, thank you for listening!
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