Faithbridge Foster Care Inc

Support for Young Adults Aging Out of Care: FaithBridge Youth Opportunities assists young adults in Georgia, between the ages of 18 and 26, who have aged out of foster care on their journey into adulthood. Young adults are provided with financial assistance (to support room and board, transportation, tuition, education supplies, healthcare, and other living assistance), life coaching, and enrollment support into post-secondary institutions. FaithBridge Youth Opportunities assisted more than 296 young adults with financial assistance, life coaching, and enrollment support to achieve acceptance into 50 post-secondary institutions throughout Georgia.

Adoption and Child Life History: Each year, approximately 1,600 children in Georgia's foster care system need families who will adopt them. FaithBridge works to find adoptive homes for these children - specifically teens, sibling groups of three or more, and children with special needs. FaithBridge also works with the State of Georgia to provide Child Life Histories (compilations of official documents such as birth certificates and medical histories, and historical information like birth family details and school records) for children who are eligible for adoption, ensuring that they have all of their required documents to be adopted. In 2024, FaithBridge matched three families with children waiting in the foster care system to be adopted, resulting in two children finding their forever homes. Additionally, FaithBridge completed 576 Child Life Histories, making adoption possible for each child.

Foster Home Recruitment and Development: FaithBridge recruits, trains, and supports foster and adoptive families in local churches. We license them to provide community-based, short-and long-term traditional, medically fragile, and therapeutic care as well as adoptive homes for foster children in Georgia. In 2024 FaithBridge launched 14 new church partners. Through these partners, FaithBridge recruited, trained, and licensed 64 new foster, adoptive, and respite families and supported more than 204 foster homes.

FaithBridgeU Online Learning: In order to care for children successfully, we must excel at supporting and retaining quality foster families. FaithBridgeU was built from a vision in which every foster parent has access to high-quality, Christ-centered, professionally informed training, built through collaboration. Courses are designed to engage learners, offer practical tools for parenting, and connect with families through stories, interviews, and testimonies. In 2024, FaithBridgeU provided training to more than 1,530 foster and adoptive parents in addition to the FaithBridge community.