You Can Be Part Of Creating Belonging For Kids In Foster Care

There is a critical shortage of foster homes. Learn about what’s required and sign up for our summer webinar series to hear from parents and former foster youth.

We have the privilege to film and help raise awareness for kids in foster care seeking adoptive homes. Visit our I Belong Project gallery to meet waiting kids, and learn about foster-adopt.

Learn how your business or faith community can provide valuable supEven if you can’t foster you can make a huge difference by starting a Foster Friendly movement in your city or town.port to help retain and care for local foster families.

Every child deserves a future filled with hope, love, and the joy of belonging. Your financial support makes a lasting impact.

Meet the Kids

Nearly one-quarter of kids in foster care are legally free for adoption.
Our I Belong Project is a video storytelling initiative that gives kids a face and a voice and helps connect many of them with loving, forever families.

Whether you’re just beginning your journey to foster, a seasoned foster parent considering adoption or simply someone with a heart for vulnerable kids, we invite you to meet, listen to and see some of the amazing kids right here in our community in need of adoptive families.

We’re Changing The Experiences And Outcomes Of Kids In Foster Care Across Our State

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Our one-of-a-kind video storytelling initiative curates safe, fun and memorable shoot days where adoption-eligible kids in foster care share their stories and hopes for a family. We share their videos to help connect them with adoptive families.

Foster Friendly Communities

Acworth became Georgia’s first Foster Friendly City in 2023, with the Mayor proclaiming the city’s commitment to recruit and retain enough foster families to serve the communities kids in foster care. They’ve committed to engage the city’s business, faith and nonprofit communities to wrap-around and support foster families.

Now the movement is taking off across the state with new communities gaining traction to care well for the families who are on the front lines caring for our communities’ most vulnerable children.

FosterCon: Free Webinars On Fostering

If you’ve considered fostering or adopting, start by watch our FosterCon webinars on-demand Our powerful 2024 webinar series features some of today’s top advocates, along with foster parents, former foster youth, trauma experts and other trusted voices.

Come and listen. Get your questions answered. Be inspired. Take action.

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Georgia Kids Belong Is Part of the America’s Kids Belong Family

We’re dramatically improving the experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care.

We have 1 mission: FAMILY

We Target 2 Profound Problems

  • RECRUITMENT – Foster care has half as many foster parents as kids in care.
  • RETENTION – Half of new foster parents quit within a year.

We Offer 3 Signature Solutions

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Our I Belong Project™ video storytelling initiative recruits families for adoption-eligible kids in foster care. It is the largest, most effective program of its kind. As it brings children’s powerful stories to life, it also inspires thousands of new people each year to get engaged engage foster care.

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Our Foster Friendly
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We raise awareness of foster care to recruit foster and adoptive families and accompany them on their journeys by providing information and inspiration to help them take their next step. Our Foster Friendly Podcast and FosterCon webinars are just two of our well-recognized resources.