Brandon Andres Green, host of Good Neighbor Podcast Tulsa, sits down with Brittany Stokes of Tulsa Girls Home and Project Orphans to talk about foster care, trauma, vulnerable children, and what it really takes to create safety for girls who need someone to stay.

Brittany shares how her path shifted from corporate marketing into nonprofit leadership, eventually helping build Project Orphans and later Tulsa Girls Home. After she and her husband became foster parents, they saw the gaps surrounding girls in foster care and began working toward a trauma-informed home built around stability, healing, and consistent adult support.

This conversation challenges one of the most damaging assumptions in foster care: the myth of the “bad foster kid.” Brittany explains why behaviors that frustrate or scare adults are often signs of untreated trauma, unmet needs, fear, instability, and pain that children have not had the tools or safety to process.

You’ll also hear how Tulsa Girls Home supports girls in Oklahoma, how Project Orphans serves vulnerable children and families in Uganda, and why the same wounds often show up across very different parts of the world once basic needs are met. Brittany also shares about Beyond Foster Care, their work supporting young people as they age out of the system and need mentorship, resources, and a place to belong.

If you care about foster care, child advocacy, trauma-informed support, mentoring youth, nonprofit work, or helping vulnerable kids find safety and stability, this conversation gives you a grounded look at what helps and what harms.

Some girls do not need another label. They need safety, stability, and someone who stays.