[Pictured in photo are (l to r) Lynne Shockey, her son Jacob, and Cherie Schroeder, director of foster and kinship care education at Woodland Community College, and a member of Yolo County ACEs Connection.]
WOODLAND — Lynne Shockey couldn’t tell you how many foster children she and her husband, Skip Evey, have opened their hearts and homes to over the past two decades.
There have been 10 to 15 just in the past couple of years alone — children whose lives have been turned upside down, often taken from their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs because their parents or guardians are unable to care for them.
Some of the foster kids Shockey and Evey took in over the years would become permanent members of the family, beginning with a girl they adopted 20 years ago while living in Sacramento County.
Five years later, after moving to Yolo County, the couple adopted two more girls, ages 3 and 4. By then, with three adopted children and three birth children in their home, Shockey and Evey decided it was time to take a break from fostering for a while.
“We decided maybe we should step back and raise the family we had,” Shockey said.
So they did. For 12 years.
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