The AOK Team
All Our Kids, Inc. is an organization of individuals who are passionate about foster care and adoption, and supporting families involved. Feel free to reach out to any of us!
Dr. Marianna Litovich
Founder and Executive Director
mlitovich@FosteringAOK.org
Contact for: All Organizational Operation
Marianna Litovich is a parent, community psychologist, and civic-minded organizer. She is often scheming about ways to bring people together, build bridges, and strengthen her community. After a decade as a clinician in the public mental health sector and as a university professor, she now consults with community agencies and state departments to improve their programming in order to better support families with young children in Massachusetts. She is passionate about foster care and adoption, and grew up knowing she wanted to adopt children through the foster care system. In addition to steering All Our Kids through its inception and recent growth, she is also a foster parent ambassador for the Department of Children and Families and is on the board of the Massachusetts Alliance for Families, a statewide advocacy organization for foster parents. In 2016, Marianna and her family were named Massachusetts Foster Parents of the Year. Marianna was the 2018 recipient of the Champions for Children award from the Child Advocacy Center of Hampshire County, and an honoree as part of Business West's 40 Under 40 Class of 2018.
Having now adopted twice and fostered numerous other children, she founded All Our Kids, Inc. in response to the reactions people around her were having: foster and adoptive families felt isolated, the public had a limited understanding of the foster care system, and everyone wanted to do something to make a difference. Marianna lives with her partner, Kelley, and four children in South Hadley, and she will never say no to an invitation for coffee.
Melissa Barber
Program Coordinator
mbarber@FosteringAOK.org
Contact for: AOK Community Closet, AOK Connect
Caitlin Martin
Family Support Navigator
CMartin@FosteringAOK.org
Contact for: Resilience & Support Hub
Caitlin Martin (she/her) is a foster and pre-adoptive parent. Originally from
Northern Virginia, she graduated from Hampshire College in 2013, and fell in love with Western Massachusetts. She has worked as a Kindergarten teacher for eight years and now spends time tutoring and working with AOK. She became a foster parent in 2018, and originally intended to adopt. Plans changed quickly when she heard one of her former students and their siblings were in care. She fostered them for two years before they reunified and has since continued to foster children for varying lengths of time. She happily connects with biological families as much as possible to support the youth in her care. Caitlin is on the Foster Parent Advisory Board for the Greenfield Area Office.
Kyle Belanger
Board President
Kyle Belanger is a parent, activist, communications professor and media personality whose dedication
to the advocacy for children stretches into each facet of his daily life. His experiences as a foster and adoptive parent have been chronicled on his widely-read fatherhood blog. His trans-racial, multi-cultural, super-vibrant family of four is 100 percent Western Massachusetts; they’ve rooted in South Hadley, and will be there forever.
Anthony DeJura
Board Vice President
Anthony DeJura is a parent and advocate, as well as a Senior Assistant Director of a non-profit human services organization for adults with developmental disabilities. He is committed to fostering relationships within the child welfare system, and to supporting children and families with different abilities. Anthony sits on the Parent Advisory Board for the Department of Children and Families Western Region, where he uses his experience as a foster and adoptive parent to advocate for needed changes within the system. He lives with his partner, Rich, and their three active boys. He is proud to be a Board Member of AOK and happy to bring his partnering skills to build bridges within the child welfare system.
Mary Kate Farley
Board Secretary
Mary Kate Farley-Dimino loves that she became a parent through fostering and adoption. She currently works in Organizational Development at the Consortium, a well-established human services organization in Holyoke, and she is especially grateful that in this role she’s encouraged to bring her whole self, including all her lived experience, to her work. In addition to her development work, Mary Kate loves learning and sharing about the peer-recovery movement, the wonders of neuroplasticity, and the benefits of complementary modalities such as yoga, meditation, and energy work for healing from trauma.
She first connected with AOK through the awesome All Our Kids Connect Facebook group, and believes deeply in the ‘people helping people’ focus of AOK’s mission to, among other things, “enrich community connectedness among foster/adoptive families in Western MA.” For fun, friendship, and therapy, Mary Kate enjoys performing in local community theatre musicals, as well as exploring all of our area’s natural beauty. She lives in Holyoke with her brilliant and loving 6 year old daughter and their sassy calico cat.
