Join our team: Foster America seeks three senior advisors
Foster America is excited to announce new opportunities to join our work to prevent systems involvement for families in need of resources. As we continue to innovate and reimagine child […]
Foster America announces opportunity for finance professionals
Foster America invites finance professionals serving children, youth, and families to join a 12-month hybrid fellowship focused on fiscal innovation in the child welfare sector. The Fiscal Leadership Circle will […]
Foster America is pleased to announce we are expanding our mission with a bold new goal: to co-design and implement just, equitable alternatives to foster care.
Building on seven years of success driving positive change through our immersive fellowship program, Foster America is honing its focus to prevention efforts – building family and community well-being to reduce reliance on foster care.
Announcing Foster America’s National Leadership Circle
Foster America is inviting 15 community leaders and changemakers who are serving children, youth, and families to join us for an 8-month hybrid leadership fellowship. Particularly designed by, for, and […]
Welcoming Brian Clapier, Foster America’s New Senior Vice President of Programs
Brian brings 30 years’ experience applying data-driven approaches to transform child and family services. Starting February 6th, he’ll help shape Foster America’s strategic growth as a learning hub for community […]
In Gratitude: Foster America Reflects on 2022
Dear friends, As 2022 comes to a close, we are grateful for another year of innovation, impact, and inspiration. This year, we graduated two cohorts of fellows. They supported relative caregivers […]
Cohort 6 fellows share their stories at Denver convening
Convening in person for the first time since January 2020, Foster America staff, fellows, and alumni joined alongside a group of child welfare changemakers from across the country recently. Government […]
Cohort 5 reflects on their work after 18 months in the field
For months, they’ve shared joy, frustrations, and visions for a better future with each other, but Foster America’s fellows of Cohort 5 and 6 still hadn’t met in person until […]
COVID-19 Rapid Response Updates from the Field
In this series of posts, we highlight some of the ways our jurisdictional partners are rapidly adapting systems to better serve children and families during the COVID-19 crisis, and how […]
Introducing a Playbook to Improve Child Welfare
By Sixto Cancel, Marina Nitze, Sherry Lachman, Katie Sullivan, and Emily Tavoulareas Carol* has been caring for her two young grandsons for the last six months because her daughter (their […]
