The Fostering Hope Program is a foster parent support and mentoring program funded by the Colarelli Family Foundation and operates in collaboration with Faith Partners.

The goal of the program is to enable a team of volunteers from a faith community to come together as a “quasi-extended family” to assist and support foster parents in their task of caring for foster children.

The assistance is generally of a very practical nature. Children need to be transported to games, to therapy and doctor’s appointments; they need tutoring and coaching; they need outings, fun and enrichment activities; they need help in managing money and finding jobs; and on holidays and birthdays they need celebrations and gifts.

The support is generally of an emotional or relational nature.  Foster parents are often lonely.  Given their life style, friends drop away; neighbors view them with suspicion; few people genuinely understand or appreciate the work they do and the depth of their love for the children. Friends and people they can count on become very important to them.  They make a difference for them.

While the program is initiated and managed through a series of meetings among Fostering Hope staff, the foster family and the volunteer team; the reality of the program occurs in the interactions among the team, the foster parents, and the foster children.

The Fostering Hope Program has it's own web site - we encourage you to visit. Visit the Fostering Hope web site.