Encouraging Foster Families
Foster parents play a crucial role providing a temporary safe, healing family environment for children in crisis while their birth families heal and prepare for reconciliation. In order to play their role foster parents need encouragement and support.
As the number of children being apprehended from birth families has increased in Saskatchewan, the number of foster homes has not kept pace. This means 25% of children in Saskatchewan child welfare are now housed in institutional settings, cared for by paid staff.
Sons & Daughters mobilizes volunteers from within Saskatoon churches to encourage foster families through regular hosting and events:
weekly coffee and play peer groups for foster parents and kids
monthly support nights for foster moms, including child care
monthly Foster Parent Night Out events providing trauma-informed care nights for children in foster families, giving parents a night off and out!