Right in your neighborhood, there are foster families. There could be a foster family a few blocks away who had breakfast with two children this morning and is tucking six into bed tonight. There might be a foster family two streets over who just got a call that the children they’ve been fostering have a newborn baby brother who needs them. Maybe there’s a foster family on your cul de sac with five children who need to be in five different places today … all at the same time. Perhaps there’s a foster family next door with parents who haven’t

HOW CAN YOU SIMPLY & EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE YOUR CHURCH OR MINISTRY IN SERVING BREVARD FOSTER FAMILIES TODAY? READ ON FOR SOME GREAT IDEAS!  

Why should you support foster families? The simple answer is fostering is hard. Nationwide, 50% of foster parents quit before the end of their first year. (Source: National Counsel for Adoption) In addition to caring for the children, the lives of foster families spin with nonstop activity – building relationships with parents and extended families; attending court hearings, doctors’ visits, WIC appointments and IEP meetings; and coordinating hundreds of scheduled – and sometimes unannounced – home visits by case workers, therapists, licensing specialists, Guardians Ad Litem, nurses and adoption workers. They say “Yes!”, get attached, say “Good-bye”, answer the phone