Keeping Children Safe and Families Together Through the Power of Relationship

Russ is the local Chapter Director for the KC Metro region and joined Safe Families for Children in March, 2021. The metro region includes Atchison, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, and Shawnee counties, and is expanding. He is a K-State graduate and while most of his professional career was in Corporate HR, it was his later roles as a middle school educator, behavioral interventionist, and especially as a foster / adoptive parent that drew his heart into the vision and mission of Safe Families for Children -  serving isolated and vulnerable families with compassionate community and helping deflect children from abuse, neglect, and unnecessarily entering the foster care system.  

 

Russ and his wife, Tiffany, have two (young adult) children they adopted from foster care in Shawnee County and are now grandparents. They live in Shawnee KS and attend Westside Family Church in Lenexa where they helped plant the seeds and develop a thriving foster & adoption ministry.