Just a few weeks ago, a social worker phoned a VEFC family in the middle of the night. She had a seven year old little girl whose world had just been torn apart. The child’s mother had committed suicide, and there was no one left to take care of the child. As the social worker shared this story with the VEFC family, she added, “I just need a place where this child can lay her head.” The VEFC family did so much more than that. They welcomed and comforted this frightened child, they tended to her special medical needs, and they did, indeed, give her a “place to lay her head.”