Foster Care and Resource Parenting Services
Providing a Safe and Loving Home for Children in Need
Discover our foster care and resource parent services. We provide a temporary and secure home for children in crisis, where our resource parents become vital support in their care system. With clinical support and healing programs, we work to help children overcome trauma and find stability. Join our cause and make a difference in a child's life today!
We have two types of services:
Foster Care and Resource Parenting.
What is Foster Care?
When a child is placed in foster care during a crisis, they are placed in a temporary and safe home. Adult caregivers, also known as Foster Parents or Resource Parents, become an essential component of the child's support system, providing them with basic needs and healing programs to help them cope with the trauma they have experienced. Resource Parents collaborate with the child's social workers, teachers, and doctors to nurture, love, and advocate for the child's needs until they are reunified with their biological family or adopted.
Why "There Is Hope"? - Foster Facilities
Clinical Social Workers and Behavioral Health staff are available 24/7 and respond promptly to any form of communication.
Behavioral specialists and therapists on staff can assist your child in developing skills to manage stress, control anger, communicate, and more, at no cost to you.
Individualized treatment by Certified Clinical Social Workers with a maximum caseload of 15 children, compared to large groups of up to 50 children.
Types of Foster Care Services
Benefits of Being a Foster Parent
Becoming a foster parent to a child in need can be a rewarding experience in itself. In addition to helping change a child's life for the better, foster parents also receive a variety of benefits to ensure they can provide for the child or children under their care in the most effective way possible. There Is Hope Foster Family Agency recognizes the importance and special needs of foster parents and works together with them to ensure that each parent/family receives the necessary support to provide a home and a loving environment.
*Financial assistance through monthly reimbursements
*Medical and dental coverage through Medi-Cal
*24/7 support, including weekly foster case visits
*Free foster parent training
*Generous monthly stipends, tax-free, for resource parents
Our mission is to help every child in need throughout the state by finding them a resource parent, and you can help by going through the certification process. Not only do the children benefit, but you also gain numerous benefits in addition to the satisfaction. 24/7 emergency hotline services will guide you when needed. Additionally, you have monthly resource parent and foster child meetings to strengthen bonds.
We support you in creating a healthy and supportive environment.
Join an altruistic cause.
Welcome less privileged children into your home
The decision to become a resource parent is an important one. This decision will have an impact not only on your life but also on the lives of your extended family and eventually on a child in need. We warmly welcome you, whether your goal is to adopt or simply help a child for a short period. If you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community and are single or married, you are cordially invited to join us.
How to Become a Resource Parent?
- Start with the Orientation Session, either walk-in or by appointment.
- To help you become a foster parent or a certified family, you will be required to attend our 12-hour training session. A weekend course is also available upon request.
- After that, you will be required to pass a health examination and undergo rigorous background and criminal checks by government authorities for safety purposes.
- Documentation such as DMV report, budget, and income receipts will be required, along with filling out the application to proceed with the home inspection.
- Our volunteers and social workers will review your personality, lifestyle, history, and more.*They will visit your home once again to ensure it meets all safety standards and regulatory compliance of the There Is Hope Organization.
- You will then receive the certification of becoming a resource parent and can discuss the potential foster child. The child that meets your requirements will move in with you.
But don't just take our word for it.
Here's a testimony from one of our current foster parents:
"One moment in my arms, forever in my heart."
School is out, and I know this because just as I am putting the baby to sleep, the front door swings wide open, and the house instantly fills with chatter and excitement. My heart swells with joy as I hear these sounds. They remind me of the good we are doing every day. Being a foster parent means loving, protecting, healing, strengthening, comforting, teaching, lifting, encouraging, nurturing, guiding, inspiring, and cherishing. It is not a glamorous job; it is not one that people are eager to join. It can be hard, overwhelming, and challenging both mentally and physically. Despite the challenges, I know in my heart that this is what we are meant to do.
My husband and I have been foster parents for about 3 and a half years. In those 3.5 years, our children have ranged in age from 2 days to 18 years. The placements for these children have also been varied. Our longest placement so far has been 23 months, and the shortest was 4 months. We do our best to ensure that every child who comes through our home is set up for success. We do this by advocating for each child to receive support services and therapy. These services ensure that even in the most challenging cases, they will get the help they need. By utilizing these services, my husband and I also get the support we need. Especially when facing behavior issues that arise. Being a foster parent has been a learning process, and even after the years we have been doing it, we learn something new every day. Each child is unique, and therefore, we must approach them with different methods. We do what works for us and our children. At the end of the day, I hope they leave my home feeling empowered to live productive lives, knowing they have been loved and appreciated. I love seeing my children grow and move forward into new stages in their lives. My favorite part is when they call me just to chat because they missed their mom. No matter how long they've been away, when they come back to our home, they know we are still family and that they are loved. When times get tough, I remind myself that, although it can sometimes be hard, it is worth every sleepless night and every tear shed."
Basic Requirements
A License is Required
A license is required to operate a foster home. The process involves a licensing worker visiting your home and meeting with you and other family members. The law requires minimum personal, safety, and space requirements. Foster parents work with social services staff to determine the type of child that best fits their home. Foster parents receive a monthly payment to provide for the child's material needs, such as food and clothing. Medical and dental coverage is provided through the Medi-Cal program. For working parents, appropriate child care arrangements must be made.
There Is Hope Foster Family Agency
We are committed to providing support and care for children in need and working closely with resource parents to ensure they receive the necessary support to provide a loving and nurturing home environment.
We look forward to your support in providing deserving children with a loving and safe home they deserve.
Together, we can make a difference in their lives.
We speak English, Spanish and Arabic.
Suite 111
Upland, CA 91786