SAN ANTONIO — Monday night at Regal Northwoods the local non profits Chosen, CASA, SJRC and the South Texas Alliance For Orphans hosted an opportunity to watch the soon to be released movie Sound Of Hope: The Story Of Possum Trot. It follows the tiny east Texas community that rallies through faith to find adoptive homes for more than 75 children. Angel Studio is set to release the film in theaters July 4th.
Community child welfare leaders came together for the private screening, are their message to Bexar County and beyond was plain and simple, they need families, and they need families to open their hearts and their homes like never before. 'It really shows the true picture of what foster can be with the messiness of humans, trauma and then what a community can do,' said SJRC CEO Tara Roussett. 'It really gives you hope that the community can ban together and help those that need it the most,' she added.
We always here that not everyone can foster or adopt, but that everyone doing something, even the smallest thing, can help work wonders. 'I've a personal belief that if everybody did a little bit something the world would change,' said CASA CEO Angie White. 'This is people doing quite a lot of something and changing the lives of many children in one community in Texas.'
South Texas Alliance CEO Jennifer Smith told us she hopes the new movie simply opens peoples eyes to the reality of the situation when it comes to children and trauma. 'The ways that people can get involved and that we really need everyone stepping in and playing their piece, doing their part so that we can end this crisis in San Antonio.'
Chosen CEO Jenni Lord actually traveled to Possum Trot to see the miracle in person. She was firsthand the lives that were changed. 'I truly hope that this movie awakens a movement in a true effort to reverse the foster care crisis not just in our country, but in our community,' she said. 'Bexar County is in the top one percent of counties in the United States of children per capita in foster care. My hope is that we can reverse that crisis here by stepping up with everyone at this event saying what can I personally do get involved. It doesn't mean you have to foster. Maybe it means you are supporting a family who is. Maybe you are supporting the grandmother that is next door to you who is raising children, but everyone can do something, and that is my hope.'