Foster Arizona

Established in 2013, Foster Arizona's mission is to educate, empower and engage at-risk and foster youth, families, and the community to offer hope through connections.

For ten years, Foster Arizona has continuously impacted more than 1,800 individuals who are impacted by the foster care system or are facing adversity, annually. The organization's core programs instill hope and change the trajectory of those served through the following:

• First Night Essentials: Equipping foster families with essential items during their first week as a foster family (diapers, hygiene products, and more)

• Housing Project: A 26-bed transitional housing program for young adults, ages 18-to-24, who are aging out of the Arizona foster care system or are on the verge of becoming homeless.

• Kid Connections Initiative: The program aspires to make a multi-targeted impact, striving to benefit not only the thousands of kids in foster care but also hundreds of members of our own community who have the opportunity to connect with foster children and youth in a normalized environment.

The impact is profound, yet the strategy is simple. The kids get the chance to be, well, kids.

• Foster Cooperative Parent Training: The program hosts a bi-yearly one-day training where community experts deliver keynote speeches while also providing quality resources and tools to empower those caring for children and youth to succeed.

• Foster Cooperative Portal: This program is an open-sourced online portal composed of community resources, videos from subject experts, peer support, and other invaluable resources for champions of foster and adoptive children, including the at-risk youth population.

• Fostering Voices Podcast: A podcast sharing the voices of those involved in foster care and at-risk children/young adults.

Testimonials

"Foster Arizona is one of the most impactful foster care organizations in the state of Arizona. The videos that they produce of foster youth in need of families are so real. We've seen so much success with the videos." -Rebecca, Community Partner

"We were unaware of how great the need was. We were educated on the need of support, the need of help." -Allison, Community Member

"There is nothing better than handing over the keys to a young person and seeing the look on their face when you know that they may otherwise have been homeless and you had a part in changing the trajectory of their life." -Suzy, Volunteer

"This housing was super awesome for me because it gave me chances to be an adult and to be alone without actually being alone." -Jill, Housing Participant, and Aged-Out Youth