Preventing children from entering foster care is a challenge far bigger than any single church program or project can take on alone.
That’s why Fostering the Family connects local churches and community organizations to build a statewide Resource Network across South Carolina. This network is designed to meet the needs of biological families before a crisis disrupts the home.
Our Tangible Needs Portal meets simple, yet crucial needs that help keep families stable: groceries, cleaning supplies, clothing and shoes for children, school supplies, and even beds and mattresses.
Through this network, we support:
- Biological families facing poverty and struggling to provide their children’s basic needs
- Parents preparing for reunification, who have successfully completed their treatment plan and need tangible items required by DSS (such as beds, cribs, and car seats)
- Foster and kinship families caring for children who arrived with few or no belongings
In 2025, our Resource Network served over 1,000 people and met more than 6,000 individual needs.
Thirty percent of those served were children with an open DSS case.
Together, these efforts created an estimated $150,000 economic impact.
Your support helps reduce the number of children entering foster care, shortens the time children remain in the child welfare system, and increases the likelihood of successful reunification with biological or kinship families.
This is your chance to take action now and change a child’s life.
The video below provides an overview of how it all works:
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