Join Our Annual Happy Hour & Toy Drive Event

Please join us at HOB Brewing Co in Dunedin on Dec 4th, from 2-6PM.

Bring an unwrapped toy and grab a drink. This event benefits Fostering Hope Florida and our foster families in the Tampa Bay area. All proceeds go to help us create a compassionate system of foster care that honors and protects the rights of children.

We will be drawing the winners of a Golf Cart and E-Bike at the event. Learn more at the link below:

The foster care system will never change if we don't leave the sidelines and get in the game. We know that you can't take all  vulnerable children into your home but we all can do something. Please join our team in working towards a day when EVERY foster child has a safe place to heal from trauma. 

Making a difference in one child may not change the world, but it will change the world for that one child. 

Here are some ways that Fostering Hope is making a difference:
Meeting Urgent Needs
Retaining Current Foster Parents
Recruiting New Foster Families
 Mobilizing Volunteers
Raising Awareness
Advocating for Foster Children
Gathering Community Support
Changing foster care, one child at a time.
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​Our Mission

Fostering Hope Florida is partnering with the community to create a compassionate system of foster care that honors and protects the rights of children. Join us in finding solutions.
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Here are some of the things we're working on:
  • 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 leads to high rates of drug addiction, homelessness and incarceration.
  • Recruiting and retaining foster parents
Many foster children come from troubled homes and we work hard to offer foster parents the support they need to help these children. We strive to keep siblings together in one family – something that is vitally important to their development. Additionally, we provide services to children as they transition out of the system.  ​​

Stories from foster care

Did You Know?

  • 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 garbage bag.
  • Siblings are often separated from one another indefinitely. The foster home shortage plays a large role in this unfortunate fact.

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Fostering Hope Florida, PO Box 1632, Clearwater FL 33757 | (727) 688-5328
Fostering Hope Florida, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located in the State of Florida

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