Fostering Community

Fostering Community strives to engage the local community in the foster care system and to create a community of support for foster families. Their grassroots nonprofit offers people in their community tangible opportunities to help children in foster care. There are so many people who are not called to be foster parents, but want to help in some way. They exist to give those people a way to help. Some of their current projects include The Safe Sleep Campaign, Birthday in a Box Kits, Weighted Blankets, Back to School Drive, The Hygiene Closet at DCFS, and Christmas Joy Project to name a few.

“Mrs. Rebecca Reynaud volunteers to make weighted blankets for children in foster care. Fostering Community funds the materials, networks with caseworkers and foster parents to let them know about the project, and delivers the blankets when they are finish. But, we couldn’t do it without Mrs. Rebecca who donates her time & talent. We are so grateful that she sews for us. The foster families who receive these blankets said they make sure a significant impact in these children’s sleep and over-all behavior.” as told to us by Andria Fontenot.