Featured Resources To Help Your Faith Community Become Foster Friendly
Family Assessment
Get to know your foster families with this helpful survey.
Foster Parents’ Night Out
Your getting started guide to host a foster and adoptive parents night out.
Foster Family Support Group
Create a support group for kinship and foster families in your faith community.
Best Practice #1: Become Trauma Aware
Trauma train your child and youth staff and volunteers
Free 1 hr. Trauma Training
This free introduction to trauma awareness is ideal for staff and volunteers.
Made to Belong Training Course
This 6.5 hr. course is designed to equip faith leaders to become trauma -sensitive and aware. Use ORANGE20 to access this $200 course for just $20 in 2022.
Hope for the Journey
Show Hope (formerly Empowered to Connect) offers a simulcast trauma training.
Find a TBRI-certified Trainer
Pursue local training from a trust-based relational intervention-certified (TBRI) practitioner.
Best Practice 2: Support Ministry
Offer An Ongoing Support Ministry For Kinship / Foster Families
Best Practice 3: Teach on Foster Care Annually
At least once a year a faith leader teaches in the main gathering on God’s heart for vulnerable children and families, giving people an opportunity to respond. Here are some guides to aid preparation.
