How to bring dignity and hope to youth in foster care with Rob Scheer
- Brad
- Mar 19
- 2 min read
Release date: March 23, 2026
The black garbage bag. You may or may not know its significance in the foster care system. Either way, my guest this episode will inspire you. Among other things, Rob Scheer is the author of A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time and the founder of Comfort Cases, a nonprofit with the #BAGBUSTERS rallying cry and the mission to “inspire communities to bring dignity and hope to youth in foster care.” My hope is that you will never look at a black garbage bag the same way again. More information about Rob, his nonprofit Comfort Cases, and his book, A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time, is below.
Biography of Rob Scheer
Rob Scheer entered foster care at age 12 with only the clothes on his back and a torn trash bag to carry his belongings. At 18, he was a Senior in High School and homeless as he “aged out” of the foster care system.
Flash forward to 2013 – Rob and his husband Reece were ready to start a family and were notified of a brother and sister in foster care that were in need of a home. Shockingly, they arrived on Rob’s doorstep carrying their belongings.... in a very similar trash bag.
Comfort Cases was founded soon after.
Now, Rob and Reece are the parents of five children, all adopted from the foster care system.
Annually presenting to hundreds of schools, universities, corporations and other organizations, Rob educates the community about foster care and to share his personal story. He also advocates fixing the broken foster care system by speaking at local and federal government forums.
Rob is the host of Fostering Change, rated for consecutive years as the #1 podcast for topics regarding foster care and adoption. He is the author of A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Family at a Time, his memoir published by Simon & Schuster, and is a frequent guest on national and local media. In 2022, Rob, who proudly states he doesn’t know the difference between “there”, their” and “they’re”, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree from Lynn University. He also was asked to deliver the Commencement speech to that year’s graduating class.
Links
Comfort Cases
A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Family at a Time
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