Baron has been looking for places like this all across the country.

He was born in Thailand and raised in Hawaii. He grew up in foster care, living in seventeen different homes along the way.

Now he lives in Washington state and runs CKMD Army, a network built to connect foster families to real help in all fifty states.

He and his family found themselves in Branson, so he called and asked if he could come see for himself what it looks like when an Ozarks community decides to stand in the gap.

Partners

This community is built by the people and businesses who show up, not because they have to, but because they belong to something. These are the neighbors who make everything possible.

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