FAM Care Community Clinic 

During this clinic, we’ll equip you on how to build and lead a successful FAM, with a focus on developing Care Communities to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families within your local church, so you can help provide what vulnerable children need most – strong families.

What is a Care Community? A Care Community is a wraparound support team of 4-8 committed volunteers who support a foster, adoptive, or kinship family and their children. This team provides regular and ongoing practical help such as weekly check-in calls, meals, babysitting, transportation, tutoring, help with chores, yard work, respite care, and more – whatever kind of help would be most beneficial to the family.

50% of foster families who are called but have no support quit within their first year. In contrast, 90% of foster families with a wraparound support system continue to foster after the first 12 months.

The FAM Care Community Clinic is now 100% online and self-paced! You can begin the course the moment you register, and you have up to 45 days to complete the course after registration. The course is an approximately 4.5-hour committment, broken into 7 modules.

When you register for the FAM Care Community Clinic, Fostering the Family invite you to our next upcoming pre-clinic meeting. This is a brief 30-minute virtual meeting to share important information you will need to know as you complete the course and launch your FAM. Our pre-clinic meetings are held at 12:00 PM EST. Please RSVP “yes” to the meeting invitation when you receive it. Our 2026 pre-clinic meeting dates are as follows: February 5, March 3, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 1, August 6, September 3, October 1, November 5, and December 3. 

Clicking the button below will take you to a page where you will be directed to create an account on the clinic platform. From there, you will be directed to register for the clinic.

FAM Basics Clinic 

If your church is limited in volunteers, but you have a desire to build a Family Advocacy Ministry, this is the clinic for you. In this introductory course, you will learn the essentials of engaging your church in caring for families and vulnerable children through a FAM.

Rather than provide regular, ongoing wraparound care for foster, adoptive, and kinship families, churches who complete the FAM Basics course commit to provide one critical resource for foster, adoptive, and kinship families and children.

Whether it is providing through a diaper drive, backpacks, beds, clothing, or providing respite care, date night babysitting for foster parents, or Christmas gifts – the options to serve vulnerable families and children are limitless.

This level of engagement often utilizes our Tangible Needs Portal, a platform that connects families with tangible needs to people looking to help as they are able.

FAM Basics is a 100% online, self-paced course! 

Next-Level Nurturing

TBRI Caregiver Training

Trust Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI) is a trauma-informed attachment-based approach to caring for children who have experienced developmental trauma. Learn the Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting Principles to bring hope and healing to your home.

Churches and foster families may refer biological families to Families Count classes in their area.  All Families Count classes in SC are listed on this website – www.familiescountsc.com.