Join the Family: Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent

Could You Foster?

There is a critical shortage of foster homes. Learn what it takes to foster and sign up for an upcoming FosterCon webinar to hear from real people about their real experiences fostering.

Would You Consider Adopting?

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 adoption-eligible kids and learn about the foster-adopt process.

Can Your Community Become Foster Friendly?

Even if you can’t foster your business or faith community can make a huge difference by starting a Foster Friendly Community movement where you live to help recruit and retain enough families for kids in your area.

Will You Support The Mission?

We rely almost exclusively on generosity of individuals like you to fund our mission. When you become an AKB partner with a monthly gift of $10 or more, you help recruit and retain more foster families and help more adoption-eligible kids find homes.

Help Kids In Foster Care Find Belonging

Meet just a handful of the kids in foster care filmed by our I Belong Project here in Kentucky over the past year.

I Belong Project elevates the faces and voices of adoption-eligible kids in foster care to help connect them with families.

Meet Our Kids

We’re Bringing Fostering Closer To Home

FOSTER FRIENDLY
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NEW EPISODES WEEKLY

America’s Kids Belong is bringing foster care closer to home with stories from the front lines. Hear from former foster and adoptive parents, former foster youth, business and faith leaders, elected officials, child-welfare experts and and other guests who are shaping the future of foster care.

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EARN 10+ HRS IN CE CREDITS

Learn from foster parents and experts in the field. Get your questions answered and be inspired! Foster parents can earn up 10+ hours in CE credits.

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Meet the Kids

Nationwide nearly one-quarter of kids in foster care cannot be reunified with their biological families and are seeking to be adopted.
Our I Belong Project is an innovating video storytelling initiative that elevates the faces and voices of adoption-eligible kids to help connect them with potential adoptive families.

Whether you are just beginning your journey to foster, a seasoned foster parent considering adoption or someone with a heart for vulnerable kids, take time now and meet some of the amazing kids in our community bravely pursuing belonging.

Meet Kentucky Kids

Kentucky 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

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.

Our Foster Friendly
Communities movement and App seek to retain foster families by engaging the communities where they live and work — activating businesses, faith communities, nonprofits and elected officials to appreciate and support their important work.

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.

[One thing I love about IBP videos is that] all you see and hear is the child …. And the kids do a wonderful job of showing their strengths, personalities, vulnerability, etc.,much better than any narrative we could write. I just want you to know that I am so glad and appreciative that you brought Kentucky Kids Belong to KY. Working with [your team is] an absolute breeze, and you provide us with an opportunity to have a fun day with our kids.”
Kentucky Social Worker watching I Belong Project videos with fresh eyes