Our Vision

Enlighten. Encourage. Equip.

 
 
 

Our Mission:
We are a faith-based non-profit organization that encourages and equips foster families and the children they love.

 
 
“The counties we serve desperately need foster homes for kids over 6 years old, siblings, and children with special needs.”
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Our Motivation

Nationally, half of all foster families quit within a year after their first placement (Foster Focus). They must have support to thrive! We have seen this change in our community! 

The Department of Social Services in South Carolina desperately needs foster homes for children over about 6 years of age.

About 50% of the kids adopted from DSS each year are adopted by their foster parents, so recruitment is never-ending since many of these families stop fostering to focus on their new child’s needs.

There are over 450 children in SC legally free for adoption, and we believe that by connecting foster children to caring community members we can find more kids forever homes.

We know that not everyone can foster, so Fostering Faithfully bridges the gap between those who need help and those who want to help.

Emotionally and economically we connect foster children and the families who love them to the community that cares for them by connecting loving volunteers and donors through a tangible support network providing:

  • fully stocked resource and equipment centers in both counties we serve (including beds, cribs and car seats)

  • fun date nights out for foster parents and for kids to see siblings and build relationships with other kids in foster care so they know they are not alone

  • new shoes for every child entering foster care (they should walk proudly into their new schools!)

  • meals delivered to foster homes and meals before training events with free childcare

  • recreational scholarships for kids in foster care to take lessons like art, dance, music, swim, karate, and/or attend field trips or go to camp

  • birthday sponsorships to ensure kids feel cherished and have an amazing birthday memory in foster care

  • mini grants for home and licensing needs

  • support group

  • training conference scholarships for re-certification

  • personalized duffel bags for children entering care

  • care bags provided to local DSS offices

  • special celebrations

  • respite support

  • support for DSS county offices and local caseworkers

Our hope is to continue to increase and retain loving foster families in our community with an ecosystem of authentic support. Not everyone can foster, but everyone can connect to do something to make the foster care system better!