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Becoming a Foster/Adopt Parent
Interested in becoming a foster parent or adding a blessing to your family through adoption? Here at Family First we are committed to assisting churches in launching Orphan Care Ministries and walking alongside its members in the foster licensing and adoption processes.
These processes vary based on the agency partner and their specific requirements. Family First has cultivated relationships with Child Placement Agencies (CPA) and is dedicated to connecting churches to the CPA in their region and come alongside in training and relationship building.
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Support Aging Out
Every year in the state of Texas 1,500 or more youth age-out of the Texas foster care system, many without families or any semblance of a support system to help adequately transition them into adulthood. 50% of these youth will be homeless and will enter into drug, alcohol, and/or sex addictions before their eighteenth birthday. This issue is a growing problem and is seen most clearly in the simple fact that the state prison systems of America base their future inmate population from the number of youth that age-out of the foster care system. Family First is committed to helping these young people, so they may successfully transition into adulthood with bright futures full of opportunities.
For more information and resources check out Phased In.
*Phased in is an approved Missions Project for the North Texas District.
TRAINING
Family First wants to equip you to protect the unprotected. It is our desire to help churches with training families who desire to foster and adopt. Because of our partnership with AWFC, we are able to provide church families with the necessary training that will meet the State’s requirements for this process.
We also understand that not every family is called to foster and adopt, but every church can provide the wraparound support needed in areas such as respite care (babysitting) and proper care. Family First and AWFC want to equip you to help in those areas as well.
To find out more about how you can schedule an AWFC orientation for your church, feel free to contact your regional pastoral representative or the Family First office.
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