Seattle’s Child is proud to partner with the state Department of Children, Youth and Families Strengthening Families Washington to honor outstanding caregivers doing important work on behalf of children. Throughout February, we’ll introduce you to Unsung Heroes from around the state. Enjoy their stories.Â
Tiffany Buchanan, Aberdeen
I have had the pleasure of knowing Tiffany Buchanan for many years.
She is a single mother of five! She is an adoptive mother to four beautiful previous foster children, current kinship foster parent to a baby sibling to her adopted children and she works for a transportation company taking foster kids to visits with their parents.
Tiffany has run a group home in Texas with her mother for several years, eventually adopting nine kids from the foster system between Tiffany and her mother.
Tiffany moved to Washington with her children to help a sister here. She currently supervises visits for kids in care. Tiffany has completely wrapped her life around the foster care system and supports kids, parents and foster parents in any way she can. She gives everything she has to her children, her job and does so with the biggest heart filled with love.
Tiffany is truly an unsung hero each and every day! She is a wonderful person and I am so very proud to call her a friend!
— Alisha Andreason
NOTE: Seattle’s Child is running these stories unedited, as written by the people who nominated them, in keeping with the DCYF Unsung Hero process.
More Unsung Heroes:
Olivia McGuire: A ‘powerhouse of love’
Mom doesn’t let tough times get her down
Maya Washington is ‘auntie’ to an entire community
