Why do we believe in our Fortifying Foster Families program?
Imagine a world where every child impacted by foster care is guaranteed a loving home, with trained, equipped, and certified foster parents ready to guide them on their journey.
In our Southwestern Indiana Region, we face a challenging 7:1 ratio of children in need of foster care to available fostering families. This disparity makes the work of The Isaiah 1:17 Project crucial for the well-being of our communities. By supporting children and their kinship and fostering families, we can help our communities flourish.
Our Fortifying Fostering Families program is designed to provide fostering families with the support they need to thrive. We offer 1-on-1 case aid services, including monthly meetings, weekly contact, and collaboration with the community to provide bi-weekly meals, bonding experiences, outings, prayer support, and more!
We serve families from both kinship and foster care, with preference given to those in the beginning 1-2 years of their journey. By providing this crucial support, we aim to empower fostering families to make a lasting impact on the lives of the children they care for.
Join us in making a difference and creating a brighter future for children impacted by foster care. Together, we can transform lives and build stronger communities.
How We Do It
CHILDREN DO BETTER IN FOSTERING FAMILIES
Children do better in fostering families than they do in institutional settings that are often used when there are not enough fostering families.
LOVING FOSTERING FAMILIES REDUCE RISKS
Loving Fostering Families reduce the numerous risk factors for the children they help and provide a safe space.
COSTS RISE WHEN RISKS ARE UNMITIGATED
Children struggle more and a community’s welfare costs rise when risk factors are unmitigated.
The Isaiah 1:17 Project believes that fostering families are strengthened when they value and support children entering foster care and the families who volunteer to love them.
When fostering families have intentional community support during those first two years, 98% of fostering families will be able to continue to serve the children that desperately need them. Because of our commitment to helping each child in need of foster care know their community sees their potential as greater than their circumstances, we are expanding our Fortifying Fostering Families program. This program will serve fostering families in those first to third years of service with proven methods of support that ensure they will continue to be a part of changing the futures of the children that need their care.
Are you a family offering foster care needing support?
Click to enroll in the F3 Program
SUPPORT OUR F3 FAMILIES
Want to help but don’t know how? Click on the families to see their specific needs and how you can support them!
-
Gibson County Family of Five -
Knox County Family of Eight -
Vanderburgh County Family of Four -
Warrick County Family of Three -
Warrick County Family of Seven -
Vanderburgh County Family of Seven -
Pike County Family of Three -
Gibson County Family of Eight -
Vanderburgh County Family of Three -
Gibson County Family of Nine -
Gibson County Family of Two -
Gibson County Family of Five -
Vanderburgh County Family of Six -
Vanderburgh County Family of Three -
Vanderburgh County Family of Six -
Knox County Family of Six -
Vanderburgh County Family of Five -
Warrick County Family of Seven -
Warrick County Family of Three
Family Care Connections
FCCs help provide what vulnerable children need most: strong families. Family Care Connections are church-led ministries that serve vulnerable children and families. Each FCC is unique and the direction of your FCC depends on the heart of your church congregation and the specific needs of children and families in your local community.
About Family Care Connections
Family Care Connections create a support system around fostering, adoptive, and kinship families and all the children in their home. FCC’s support families through relationship-based care and provides for the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of children and families.
F3 Lending Library provides helpful books for fostering families
Fostering parents enrolled in our F3 Program are able to check out books which can be delivered during home visits. You can also come to the Evansville office to check those out at any time.