If you aren’t familiar with the powerhouse team behind Foster Village, I encourage you to meet them. These ladies are seasoned social workers, Child Development experts, trauma experts, Behavioral Health specialists, and experienced foster and adoptive parents. They have an immense amount of knowledge and tools that they are sharing with caregivers on a daily basis to help children heal from trauma. And Chrystal will be up here in a minute to tell you about the new facility they’ve built to make these services even more accessible. All of their therapeutic support services are free to foster families, kinship caregivers, and biological parents of kids in foster care. $250 covers the costs of these professional services that typically aren’t accessible for the most at-risk families.

Over $2.5 million in critical needs met since 2016. Every day families come to Foster Village’s resource centers to get new beds, car seats, clothing, and all of the basics for kids who were placed in their homes with just the clothes on their backs. The average Welcome Pack provided for each child is $500 worth of basic needs.

Through their Partners in Permanency program they’ve helped over 120 families safely reunify this year. Parents are equipped with proven tools and strategies, foster parents are trained on how to serve as an extension of family, and financial barriers like housing, transportation, and job training are bridged through these funds. This is the only program of its kind and setting a new standard for how we approach foster care.

Foster Village currently has 7 locations nationwide with 3 more positioned to launch in 2022. $2500 helps cover the training costs the team here in Austin puts in to get a new location off the ground. This year they’ve been working on an innovative e-learning platform that will take their affiliate program to the next level in how quickly and efficiently they can train other communities on their model.

Over 2,000 vulnerable children served each year. Your donation ensures that all of their basic and therapeutic needs are met from the time they’re placed in a new home until they reach permanency through reunification or adoption. Foster Village’s goal is to break generational cycles of adversity by giving children and families the access they need to beat the odds.