Cathe Dykstra
Category: Community/Nonprofits
Job Title: President, CEO, Family Scholar House
Are there any families who've come through the program that stand out in your mind?
I love all of our families exactly the same. But there are some who don’t come from a strong family of origin. They may have come directly out of foster care, or they may have some fractured or broken relationships in their family, and often because they decide to do better, they lose their family support. I’m particularly close to those because they’re missing something. We try to replace whatever families lose in trying to do better. So id what they lose is a connection to a mother or aunt figure, an older woman who can help them with things that are unrelated to education but are just part of being human, than that’s a blessing for me to be there. It is not an accident that ‘family’ is the first word in our name. We are a family for families, and they are family for us.
