families of promise care team

For vulnerable children and families, the right resource at the right time can help meet tangible needs, and sometimes opens the door for relationships that provide hope and transformation. Through meeting these needs, we see more children staying safely at home in their own communities, and fewer children removed from their homes and entering foster care.

The Families of Promise Care Team connects to opportunities to serve vulnerable children and families in our community using a technology platform called CarePortal. Team members have opportunities to respond to specific needs of those who are at-risk or already a part of the child welfare system. The requests featured on CarePortal are vetted by child-serving professionals who understand the unique struggles children and families are facing.

Ways to be involved: praying, helping to network and resource donated items, funding responses, personally responding to requests and connecting with children and families, and coordinating response efforts. Most commonly requested items: beds, dressers, living room furniture, car seats and seasonal items/services. Find out why.

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About CarePortal West Michigan: On February 1, 2021, a small group of lay leaders from several local churches began to pray weekly for 10% of local churches to be actively engaged in serving vulnerable children and families before, during and after foster care by 2025. Our belief is that when this goal is met, there will be More Than Enough loving homes for every child in foster care in West Michigan—including foster, kinship, adoptive and restored biological families—with church-based support for all four. Our next step came clearly in the form of CarePortal, a tool that gives local churches and community members access to vetted needs, and an easy on-ramp to respond. CarePortal launched in Kent, Ottawa, Allegan and Barry counties in 2022!