Judy Hutton
Living in a foster home and being adopted as a small child has led Judy Hutton on a path that has kept her involved in the foster home system most of her adult life.
For the past 20 years she has been involved as a case worker overseeing children in foster homes, recruiting foster parents and training them how to love and be patient with their young charges. Five years ago she opened her own agency called Keeping Kids Safe serving Hancock , Allen and Wood counties. Her agency is responsible right now for 62 children and 28 foster homes. She also has started and oversees a group home of young teenage boys who have been emancipated and are learning to live on their own. They are taught to have a job, save money, attend school, life skills and relationship building. They have round the clock mentors and call Judy “Mom Hutton”. Judy stresses there is a great need for foster parents who will open their homes to children, abandoned and abused, and give them a chance to have a normal life.
Judy has 3 adopted siblings, two boys of her own (who both work for her agency) and two grandbabies. She has been married for 25 years to a very patient man who allows her to deal with issues of children at all hours of the day and night.
What little free time she has is spent with family, gardening and canning. She takes two vacations a year to distress and recharge.
Her motto comes from the song “Do Something.” Go out and make a difference.
She sees God as her role model as He teaches “to give back to society and have an impact.”