End 2024 with Impact: 8 Foster Care Organizations That Need Your Support

At The Forgotten Initiative, we’re passionate about sharing one key message with the foster care community:

You are not alone.

Sometimes, the people working to wrap support around this community need to hear the same message—that we are never alone in this mission either. That’s why we’re so thankful for the support of our generous partners and donors. It’s also why we’re so encouraged to know that there are many incredible organizations (some of which we’ve featured on our podcasts) making a difference in cities across the country.

At The Forgotten Initiative, our primary mission is to uplift a part of the foster care community that is often neglected—the caseworkers—because we believe that well-supported caseworkers will better serve children.

READ: Why Well-Supported Caseworkers Will More Effectively Serve Children

But providing 360-degree support for the foster care community takes all kinds of people, in all kinds of places. That’s why it’s beautiful to see so many organizations addressing a variety of needs and approaching outreach from different angles.

If you’ve been looking for a trusted place to direct an end-of-year gift to support agency workers, foster parents, adoptive parents, biological parents, and children in foster care, check out some other organizations that are doing some incredible work in this space:

1) Foster the Family

Foster the Family provides immediate, practical support and ongoing, holistic care to families welcoming vulnerable children through foster, adoption, and kinship care. They offer placement packages, support groups, respite care, family events, and training to families.

They work locally in Maryland, the D.C. Metro Area, New Jersey, Florida, and Michigan.

You can connect with Foster the Family on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

2) Replanted Ministry

Replanted helps foster and adoptive families heal, connect, and thrive through local support groups, trauma-informed resources, and an annual conference. Many foster and adoptive families feel overwhelmed, isolated, and unsupported. That’s why Replanted comes alongside them to provide invaluable emotional support and intentional community.

Learn more about Replanted on their Facebook, X, or Instagram.

3) Promise 686

Promise 686’s mission is to mobilize church communities to care for vulnerable children. By training churches on how to create and lead successful Family Advocacy Ministries (FAMs), they are working toward seeing every child in a safe and loving family, forever.

The name of their organization comes from Psalms 68:6 which says, “God sets the lonely in families.”

If you want to explore more about what Promise 686 does, connect with them on Facebook, Instagram, or X.

4) Foster the City

This organization’s mission is to provide a loving home for every child in foster care. Due to a shortage of foster homes across the country, children in the foster care system are often placed outside of their community and moved around multiple times. Many times, youth in foster care end up being more vulnerable to struggles like addiction, homelessness, mental health crises, and even human trafficking.

Foster the City believes that if even a fraction of churches were to support and uplift one foster family, there would be more than enough loving homes to meet the need.

This organization provides a pre-designed pathway to help churches take steps toward helping kids and families in crisis.

Find more information about this organization’s mission on their Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.

5) For The Children

For The Children is an organization devoted to seeing every child experience unconditional love, hope, and safety. They do this by mobilizing the local Church to create life-changing moments through camps and mentoring for children who have experienced relational trauma.

If For The Children’s mission speaks to your heart, you can connect with them on their Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.

6) The Riverside Project

Foster care is not an isolated problem. The various systemic issues affecting children and families are interconnected.

This organization believes that in order to create real, lasting change, we must address these issues from all sides. When we work together—each with our own unique focus, skills, and expertise—we can begin to build a better future for every family in our communities.

The Riverside Project is transforming the foster care system in Houston. They are a collaborative network of agencies, congregations, nonprofits, school districts, and passionate individuals working together to make a difference.

Connect with The Riverside Project on their Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.

7) WinShape Homes

With a vision and belief that all children deserve to feel loved and well-cared for, Truett Cathy and his wife, Jeannette, established WinShape Homes over 30 years ago. Since then, they have placed hundreds of children in need with families who are guided by Christ to care, and they continue to support churches in establishing foster care ministries.

By training parents to provide foster care in their own homes, WinShape Homes believes they can help address Georgia’s foster care crisis on a larger scale. They also have a Group Care program that allows children to experience stability in a Christ-centered home with full-time parents who are committed to being there for the long haul.

Explore more about WinShape Homes on their Instagram, Facebook, or X.

8) Wait No More

This is Focus on the Family’s foster and adoption ministry. Wait No More’s whole-family approach considers all sides of these intense callings—providing free resources that are focused on more than a decision to adopt. Many things can pull at the fabric of family, and it’s usually the child who bears the greatest burden.

This organization helps foster, adoptive, and kinship families thrive in Christ.

Connect with Wait No More and learn more about their ministry by following them on Instagram or Facebook.

There are so many wonderful organizations doing great work to help children in foster care, the vital workers who support them, and their families (both foster/adoptive and biological). Your end-of-year gift will do so much good regardless of which organization you choose to support from this list.

To fund the work we’re doing here at The Forgotten Initiative and join us in wrapping support around every foster care caseworker, you can donate here or text “forgotten” to 44321.

Thank you so much for considering supporting organizations that are working to uplift the foster care community. Your assistance helps all of us make more workers, parents, and children in foster care feel seen, understood, and cared for.