Fostering Hope Florida

Our Mission

Our mission at Fostering Hope Florida is to partner with the community in creating a compassionate system of foster care that honors and protects the rights of children.

Areas of focus include:

Keeping siblings together - Many children only get to see their brothers and sisters during scheduled visitations
Preventing placement disruptions - Often children in foster care move from home to home, some live in 20+ different places
Raising children in families - Due to the shortage of foster parents, many foster children are growing up in facilities instead of homes
Aging out foster youth - Many foster young adults age out of the foster care system with no support or mentors in their lives, leaving them up to their own devices. This lack of a support system may lead to drug addiction, homelessness and incarceration.

Many foster children come from troubled homes and we work hard to offer foster parents the support they need to help these children. Additionally, we strive to keep siblings together in one family – something that is vitally important to their development. Fostering Hope Florida is located in the Tampa Bay area, currently serving Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.

Programs

Changing foster care, one child at a time.

Ways to help

We need support from the community.

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become a foster parent

Find out how you can help a child in need.

Stories from foster care

There are more than 35,000 children in foster care in Florida today.
Sixty-six percent are under the age of 10, spending their critical early development years in an institutionalized setting.
Many children remain in foster care for three years or more.
Due to foster home shortages, children can be placed in up to 20 foster homes, until a permanent place for them is found. Many go to a different home each night, carrying their belongings in a grocery bag.
Siblings are often separated from one another indefinitely. The foster home shortage plays a large role in this unfortunate fact.