In Harmony with Hope Award 2011 Honoree - Brenda Krause Eheart

Disheartened by the state of the foster care system in this country, Brenda Eheart, who had spent years researching Illinois' foster care system in her role in academia, conceived of an intentional intergenerational village filled with parents raising and adopting foster children and senior citizens volunteering to help support the kids and the community in exchange for lowered rents. Hope Meadows opened on a closed military base in Illinois in 1994. More than 15 years later, a dozen families live in the community, free of rent. In exchange, they agree to adopt three or four foster care system children who have slim chances of finding permanent homes. Those children, once the most difficult to place, boast a high 89% permanency rate. Learn more at elfenworks.org/award

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