CC 30 | Andy Cook: Helping Bring Kids Home at Promise686

Did you know that there are approximately 400,000 children in the foster care system in the U.S. alone, but many children age-out of foster care without a permanent or lasting sense of family? This week on Consuming Careers, we’re meeting with Andy Cook. Andy’s the President & CEO of Promise686, where, for the last 11+ years, he and his team have been working tirelessly on the frontlines of the child welfare crisis by mobilizing church communities to care for vulnerable children. We’re talking with Andy about how he got started, what caused him to quit a perfectly good, stable career in education to join Promise686, and what the organization is doing to impact (as they put it) the “unrelenting, unending cycle of foster care”.  

I really think you’re going to enjoy this story, and I’ll even bet you know someone who’s been impacted by the work of Promise686.

You can find and follow Andy Cook at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-cook-9425883/

To learn more about Promise686, check out: https://promise686.org/

Interview recorded live at Virtue Village in Peachtree Corners, Georgia; https://www.virtuevillage.com/

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