We do this by advancing prevention, equipping leaders, turning local learning into shared knowledge, and bringing people together around shared action.
We work with parents, young people, caregivers, public systems, and community partners to develop, test, and improve prevention approaches. We help lived experts participate as co-creators and decision-makers while helping partners shift policy, practice, funding, and resources to support families earlier and sustain locally driven solutions.
We connect learning across communities, turning promising approaches and practical lessons into tools, training, stories, frameworks, and guidance others can use. Sharing what works—and what is still being learned—helps communities build on one another’s progress and strengthens the broader prevention field.
Through Leadership Circles, coaching, peer learning, and practical tools, we equip changemakers to use policy, practice, funding, data, and other systems levers to move resources and responses upstream.
We bring together lived experts, community organizations, public agencies, funders, advocates, and national partners to align priorities and work toward common goals. Through facilitation and sustained collaboration, we help partners move ideas into action and build the infrastructure needed for lasting change.
We work with parents, young people, caregivers, public systems, and community partners to develop, test, and improve prevention approaches. We help lived experts participate as co-creators and decision-makers while helping partners shift policy, practice, funding, and resources to support families earlier and sustain locally driven solutions.
Through Leadership Circles, coaching, peer learning, and practical tools, we equip changemakers to use policy, practice, funding, data, and other systems levers to move resources and responses upstream.
We connect learning across communities, turning promising approaches and practical lessons into tools, training, stories, frameworks, and guidance others can use. Sharing what works—and what is still being learned—helps communities build on one another’s progress and strengthens the broader prevention field.
We bring together lived experts, community organizations, public agencies, funders, advocates, and national partners to align priorities and work toward common goals. Through facilitation and sustained collaboration, we help partners move ideas into action and build the infrastructure needed for lasting change.
Our work takes different forms depending on what a community or partner needs.
Practical lessons, tools, and examples from the field shared through webinars, workshops, convenings, and trainings.
Structured learning communities where leaders strengthen skills, build relationships, and apply new ideas in their work.
Facilitation, tools, and strategic support to help lived experts, community leaders, and partners identify priorities, address barriers, and turn ideas into action.
Long-term partnerships that provide the infrastructure, resources, and sustained support communities need to advance locally driven solutions and reduce unnecessary child welfare involvement
–Marie Zemler Wu, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Foster America
In 2026, Foster America marks a decade of building an alternative to a child welfare system rooted in crisis—and proving that families thrive when support comes early, with dignity, and led by community.
