Foster Care
THE NEED
Approximately 10,000 children are in foster care in Michigan, including more than 2000 children who are waiting to be adopted or in need a forever family through adoption. More than 1,600 children are expected to be adopted from Michigan’s child welfare system in 2023. Source.
Most of those who age out of the foster care system will struggle with one or more of these challenges:
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families...”
Homelessness
Trafficking
Incarceration
Becoming teen parents
Having children who enter foster care
THE SOLUTION
Families of Promise is proud to partner with More Than Enough, a collaborative movement that includes hundreds of organizational and church partners all committed to seeing more than enough loving homes for every child in U.S. foster care—including foster, kinship, adoptive, and restored biological families—with church-based support for all four.
Foster Care Navigator provides resources to help you find the right agency and navigate the foster care process, no matter where in Michigan you live.
Here in Kent County, there are five private foster care agencies. Learn more about each agency and how to become a licensed foster parent or respite provider by clicking on the logos below. Also, learn how our Families of Promise Care Team supports vulnerable kids, families and aging out youth who are in the care of all five of these agencies, and how you can be involved.
Need more help to find your fit in caring for vulnerable children?
Contact us at familiesofpromise@kcconline.org.