TIM LORENTZ
Project Coordinator
The REACH Project
As Rural Expansion of
Adoptive Communities and Homes (REACH) Project Coordinator, Tim
Lorentz is responsible for raising awareness for REACH as well as
managing the Adoption Ambassadors program. Working with the
ambassadors, Lorentz strives to gain attention for the REACH
Project in rural communities and to recruit new foster and
adoptive parents through mentorship and outreach.
He is also responsible for carrying the adoption message
through involvement in foster care/adoption conferences and social
events.
Lorentz is active in the foster and adoptive community and is
currently serving his second term as a board member for the Foster
and Adoptive Care Association of Minnesota. He is also founder and
president of the Association of Foster and Adoptive Families of
South Central Minnesota and the non-profit organization Dads Are
Parents Too (DAPT). Lorentz has experience in publicity work,
fundraising and parent networking and is an active member of the
North American Council of Adoptable Children Community Action Team
in Mankato, Minn.
A foster parent for over five years, Lorentz has cared for twenty
children throughout the years and recently became an adoptive
father to a special needs child. Lorentz, a retired 22-year member
of the Army National Guard, is a self-employed construction
contractor. In his personal time he has volunteered as a baseball
coach and as a teacher's helper in the St. Peter school system in
St. Peter, Minn.
"It is my personal motivation to make a difference in children's
lives and to help waiting children find permanent homes through
working with potential adoptive families." |
