The best way to learn more is to attend our next Find Your Place in Foster Care and Adoption events in September. Please save the date and look for the sign-up link soon!
Find Your Place in Foster Care and Adoption
Thursday, September 15 | 6-8pm | Shea Venue
Thursday, September 22 | 6-8pm | North Ridge HSM
Everyone has a place in foster care and adoption—come find yours! At this event, you will hear about a variety of ways you can help address the foster care needs in our state—from donating diapers, to supporting a family who fosters, to becoming licensed yourself. Local partners will be onsite to answer questions and provide ways to get involved. Childcare provided and light snacks. Childcare provided and light snacks.
Sign up will open in August 2022The Greatest Need – Foster Care and Adoption
Have you ever thought about fostering a child? Would you like to learn more? We will connect you with helpful staff at Christian family Care and AZ 1.27 who can answer questions and will gladly guide you through this process! SBC and dozens of other AZ churches are praying that 1,000 families will welcome a child into their home in the next two years. Will you pray about being a forever family for a child in need?
Are you currently a foster, kinship, or adoptive parent? Have you previously been a foster or kinship parent?
Make a Difference and Lend a Hand Opportunities
Please review the list of opportunities at Gigi’s Cottage and with our local partners who provide critical support services and tangible needs for kids in care, foster families, birth families, and young adults who have aged out.
The engagement grid below shows the holistic approach to the variety of ways to get involved! From donating diapers and planning birthday parties to mentoring a birth mother to fostering a child.
A key component of our For the Valley vision is expanding our efforts to care for children and families impacted by the foster care crisis in our state. We’re excited to announce that in March 2022, SBC began a new effort to bring a girl’s foster home called “Gigi’s Cottage” under the SBC ministry umbrella. Previously founded and run by a long-standing SBC family and their organization Firm Foundations, the home provides a home for girls ranging in age from 8 to 16.
Some of the girls who will live at Gigi’s Cottage come from a failed foster, adoption, or kinship placement; others from facilities that offer higher-level care, such as residential treatment centers or therapeutic group homes. Through new combined efforts, SBC will provide administrative and operational support to assist the Gigi’s Cottage team to help these girls move in a positive direction and experience the love of Jesus.
How can you get involved? First, pray for the transition and logistics of establishing this home and the girls who will live there. Second, get involved by volunteering. Opportunities to serve at the house will be posted here in the next couple months, but Gigi’s Cottage is currently seeking staff members including drivers, tutors, managers, and direct-care staff.
Is Gigi’s Cottage eligible for AZ’s state income tax credit as a Qualifying Foster Care Tax Credit Organization? Yes, you can confirm by visiting the Arizona Dept. of Revenue’s website and looking for Firm Foundation Youth Homes https://azdor.gov/tax-credits/contributions-qcos-and-qfcos (scroll to the list for 2022 under QFCO). The QFCO code is 10054 which us used on the AZ tax form 352. The maximum credit allowed is $1,000 for married filing joint filers and $500 for single, heads of household, and married filing separate filers.
If you are interested in information about foster care, adoption, would like to serve in this ministry, or are a current foster, adoptive, or kinship family, please fill out the form below to let us know how we can serve you.
Foster Care and Adoption Partners
Foster Care Program Coordinator: Phoebe Johnson
Central Director, Local Outreach Director: Shannon Mitchell
A Young Couple’s Adoption Story Kinship Adoption Special Needs Adoption Foster Care and Adoption International and Domestic Adoption Foster Care and Adoption When You Have Older Children “ReMoved” – a foster care journey experience through the eyes of a child removed from her home