Our Background
Founders Kane & Jennifer Geils, have been Foster Parents for the last 6 years. Starting with their niece and nephew in Orlando, they moved to Bradenton to open their café business. While taking a break from fostering the calling for them to enter back into it was there. Becoming fully state licensed, they began the journey again. Moving to a Foster Care property in Sarasota with their 2 biological, they welcomed 3 sisters, ages 2, 6 & 7.Those girls reunified with family 8 months later.
In April 2023, Kane & Jennifer, brought 2 sisters into their family. Moving off of the Sarasota campus and back to their home in Bradenton they began the process of becoming 1 family unit.
This foundation has been started by them in hopes to make a difference is the Foster Care system and to directly help Foster & Adoptive Parents, Foster & Biological Children, & Single Parents. These families get lost in the system and it is sad.
Foster Children lack life skills, at times education, proper social skills, most do not have a faith foundation and there are so many Foster Children that just get lost along the way.
Bio-Children are unique and special in their own ways, but they do need skills and training. They are accepting of new children in their home, sharing their parents, learning to understand why the Foster Children are not being raised the same as they were and then teaching them to be grateful and thankful to God that they were raised by present parents.
Foster Parents need the support, they need to feel that they ARE being listened to, that maybe their child will NOT have to wait months on end for that support, to have resources readily available for them and a place to go just to know that their feelings are what others feel as well.
Single Parents we know how hard they work and how they have to be rocks on the outside, but are at times in turmoil inside. They have to be both parents, good cop and bad cop, sacrifice their needs to meet those of their child(ren).
They have a dream that One ARK Foundation can provide support to individuals in a timely manner and meet the needs of families.
Being a Foster Parent is HARD work! It is having a heart to want to provide for others and a sense of faith unlike they have ever seen.
