{"id":7,"date":"2016-07-31T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fosterchangecc.org\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2023-08-18T03:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:15:27","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fosterchangecc.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our mission is the empowerment of all foster, kinship, and adoptive families, through support that enables happy, healthy children to grow in happy, healthy environments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many children in Nevada who are unable to remain in their homes and they all need a safe and nurturing adult to welcome them into their lives.  The foster, kinship, and adoptive families who open their homes and hearts to these children are committed to doing whatever possible to help improve their lives and futures. As the official Foster, Kinship, and Adoptive Family Association of Nevada, we are committed to those families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foster Change serves the community in the following ways:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Providing <\/span>regularly scheduled meetings, inviting caregivers to join together and have their voice heard and elevated. These meetings are called Foster Change One Voice Town Hall meetings and are held virtually.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Providing services to members through a helpline that is monitored by email, phone and social media, access to a free lending library and to ongoing support offered by our serving advisory board organizations, Foster Kinship, SAFY, Raise the Future, CASA Las Vegas, Fostering Hope, Foster Connect and Fostering Life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Supporting ALL families involved in the foster care system by acting as a neutral bridge between the Department of Family Services (DFS) and families to ensure healthy, bidirectional communication on behalf of children and families.  <\/span>Foster Change may also amplify community support for children in Foster Care by acting as a fiscal partner to DFS on specific events (e.g. Back to School; Holiday) and initiatives (funding basic need items) by accepting donations to ensure all children in foster care are served.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Supporting ALL families involved in the foster care system by hosting a yearly Foster Change One Team One Dream<\/em> networking meeting, which provides the opportunity to connect the professionals in all willing, local child serving agencies, organizations and ministries, with the governing belief that stronger partnerships will provide better outcomes for children experiencing care.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Foster Change, a 501c3, was founded in 2016<\/strong> by directors of local 501c3 organizations who were already providing support to foster, kinship, and adoptive families to provide a unified voice in partnership with the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) under DFS.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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