I'm not ready to be a foster parent. We understand not everyone is ready to become a foster parent, but there are many things you can do to help foster children and foster parents in your community. Because children enter foster care in emergency situations, they often have very few personal possessions and what little they do have often is carryied around in trash bags.
Many foster children have special needs, such as for counseling, speech therapy, or tutoring.
Foster care can be a hectic and expensive endeavor, and many foster parents often find themselves scrambling to keep up. Foster parents must not be left to tackle all of this on their own. Each community must accept responsibility for these children. Here are some ideas of things you or your business, church or service organization can do to give foster families in your community the support they need and deserve. Support local foster families Offer to baby sit for a foster family in your area.