Why volunteer in foster care?
When you volunteer to support those impacted by foster care, it not only has a big impact on a child’s life, but it benefits your entire community – for years to come!
Create emotional well-being for kids
Help teens transition into adulthood
Reduce youth homelessness
Provide birth families support to heal
Improve educational outcomes for children
Encourage foster families and workers
Create emotional
well-being for kids
Help teens transition into adulthood
Reduce youth
homelessness
Provide birth families
support to heal
Improve educational outcomes for children
Encourage foster
families and workers
Find foster care volunteer opportunities near you
You can volunteer at any level—from cooking a meal, to mentoring foster teens, to hosting an event—it all makes a difference!
Help with one-time foster care volunteer activities and projects to create awareness and lasting impact.
Meet ongoing needs and create lasting relationships with children in foster care and your community.
Donate personal items to families in need or offer your professional expertise to a local foster care program.
How it Works
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Share your volunteer interests
We’ll connect you with organizations that match
Begin volunteering!
How it works
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Share your volunteer interests
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We’ll connect you with organizations that match
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Begin volunteering!
“I didn’t think of foster care in any way other than taking a child into our home until I helped a foster family and saw how valuable I could be by helping them and the child in their home.”
“CASA gives me the chance to be one more safe, healthy person who connects with a child and shows up for them. I do this even when my own plate is full because if not me, then who? If I carve out just a little extra time in my day, I can make a big difference.”
“I love volunteering for foster care organizations because it not only allows me to meet the needs of a child, but also to meet the needs of a social worker.”
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