{"id":20737,"date":"2023-08-01T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/?p=20737"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:17:43","slug":"brevard-family-partnership-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/brevard-family-partnership-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Today, Guest columnist<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20739 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/florida-today-photo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/florida-today-photo-200x267.webp 200w, https:\/\/fpocf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/florida-today-photo-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/fpocf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/florida-today-photo.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Imagine Rochelle Sandridge\u2019s surprise when a uniformed Marine showed up at her Rockledge home and crisply saluted her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Marine was a former foster child in Brevard County who had been placed with Rochelle and her husband, Ronald, through Brevard Family Partnership (BFP.) He wanted to let them know the difference the couple had made in his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Rochelle said. \u201cHe saluted me. I was in tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Saturday, March 25, the Sandridges join five other foster families as honorees at BFP\u2019s annual gala at Melbourne\u2019s Hilton Rialto.<\/p>\n<p>Read complete article here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/03\/20\/foster-parents-as-heroes\/70020498007\/\">https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/03\/20\/foster-parents-as-heroes\/70020498007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Today, Guest columnist Imagine Rochelle Sandridge\u2019s surprise when a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles","wpautop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking for a Hero? - Family Partnerships of Central Florida<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BFP is the lead agency responsible for Brevard children that enter the dependency system, also referred to as foster care. 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