Foster Care: First Steps

Explore your potential next steps towards Foster Care.

If you’re wondering if Foster Care is for you, even if you’re still unsure, Foster Care: First Steps is for you.

‘First Steps’ will help deepen your understanding of a faith-based and holistic approach to Foster Care and help you to consider your readiness to pursue it.

Foster Care: First Steps includes:

  • Introduction: A ministry of reconciliation
  • Understanding out-of-home care
  • The hardest and best thing
  • What to Expect
  • Trauma and attachment: An introduction
  • Things you can do to prepare
  • The need for community
  • Additional reading and resources

Foster Care: First Steps PDF Download

Download the Foster Care: First Steps material as a PDF resource.

Foster Care: First Steps Online Course

Access the Foster Care: First Steps self-paced online course.

Other Resources

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  • Foster Care Sunday 2025

  • Out-of-Home Care & the Church

  • The Homeward Project: Theological Foundations

  • Tommy’s ‘You Party’

  • Yāṯôm part six: Parting words for the journey ahead

  • Salt and light.

Your Church and the Homeward Project

Help transform Out-of-home Care in your community.

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