JIllana Goble: A Love-Stretched Life - 2024 All In Foster Care Summit

A Love-Stretched Life: Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and the Meaning of Family

Speaker: Jillana Goble

Jillana Goble shares her deeply personal journey as a foster and adoptive parent, illustrating the profound challenges and unexpected joys of welcoming children from hard places. Through heartfelt stories, she invites us to embrace the unpredictability of foster parenting, emphasizing that while the road may be difficult, God's grace and presence remain constant.

Speaker Biography: Jillana Goble is a speaker, author, and advocate. Jillana is the founder of an unprecedented initiative that has turned into a statewide movement called Every Child Oregon. In 2019, she published "No Sugar-Coating," a book with practical suggestions and insight for prospective foster parents. In 2022, she published her debut memoir, "A Love-Stretched Life," which chronicles what she’s continually learning on the suspension bridge between reality and hope. A mom via foster care, birth, and adoption—in that order—for nearly two decades, Jillana has experienced life’s curveballs. Jillana is passionate about getting the faith community—as well as the community at large—to link arms with the state’s overburdened child welfare system to uplift vulnerable children in foster care and those who serve them. Together with her husband, Luke, she parents five children ranging in age from preteen to young adult.