Children enter foster care for many reasons - poverty, abuse, and neglect - but never because of their own choice. We are always looking for families with room in their homes and their hearts to care for one or more children in foster care. We provide our foster parents with training, compensation to help with expenses, and round the clock support from our incredible staff. For families looking to become a forever family for a child in foster care, we provide a full array of supportive services to make that dream a reality.
We Can Help With
Foster Home Licensing
Foster Home Studies
Pre-Service Training (all levels)
Annual In-Service Training
Foster Home Support
Become A Foster Parent
Do you feel the call to be a Good Shepherd foster parent? Foster parents open their homes and hearts to children in need of a safe and loving environment. Our foster families receive extensive training and support, and the process of becoming a foster parent usually takes a minimum of four months.
Treatment Foster Care is for youth of both genders, ages 12-21, who are in foster care and experiences challenges in a traditional foster home setting. Treatment foster homes accept the responsibility of providing a structured home environment, therapeutic interventions, and additional supervision or oversight.
Fostering Faithful Families is a project that engages anyone who would like to support Good Shepherd foster families. The Good Shepherd Fostering Faithful Families (FFF) project is a collaborative effort with other agencies to recruit foster and adoptive families within respective congregations.
Congratulations to mom Tonya and her son, Thomas! Thomas was adopted from foster care and his adoption was finalized on January 31st. After Thomas was adopted, Tonya sent along this note to his foster care team: I do not know where to begin but I wanted to personally thank […]
Adopting an Older Child from Foster Care: Joel and Stephanie
Why is the family interested in adopting an older child? We became interested in adopting older children when we learned about the overwhelming need. The older a child gets the less likely it is for them to be adopted and this was heartbreaking for us to learn. We decided the […]
A Leader in Treatment Foster Care, A Shepherd for Youth
Sometimes she can reach a foster care youth with one of her famous twelve-layer chocolate desserts. Sometimes she’ll get a smile when they see a house decorated for the holidays. And sometimes she will make that connection with a young person by simply turning on a funny movie at the […]
Juan and Dessa: How Fostering a Teen Changed Our Lives
Juan and Dessa know what it’s like to be looked at by a child with hope in their eyes. They had gone through the experience of fostering children, once even welcoming five siblings into their home and caring for them until they all reached permanency. It was quite a jump […]
May is National Foster Care Month, and during this time, we’ve been looking at ways to spread awareness about foster care and dispel myths about what foster care is. The concept of foster care can be a tricky one to understand. When we talk about foster care, we often hear […]
“To love a child who may just need a little chance on life” Teresa and Bill’s interest in working with young people grew out of their earlier experience as host parents for international students. They learned about Good Shepherd’s foster care program at church in a video produced for the Annual Catholic […]
Jake and Desirae began their foster care journey in a bit of an unconventional way. Already parents to their biological daughter, then almost two years old, they began caring for 22 month old who was not formally in foster care. The little boy’s mother was a friend of a friend, […]
Rebekah and Raylie: Fostering that Grew Into Adoption
Rebekah says she feels like God gave her the desire to adopt when she was young, and she never wavered. After returning from missionary work in the Dominican Republic, she began the process of getting certified as a foster parent through Good Shepherd Children & Family Services. She vividly remembers […]
Treatment Foster Care Gets Youth Ready for Successful, Independent Future
by Nishelle Thompson, PLPC, Family Clinician Growing up in foster care isn’t easy. Forced into a reality different than the one you grew up in, not knowing what’s going to happen next, having strangers who tell you they care. When those strangers are empowered to make decisions for you and […]
Miss Barb. Mama Barb. Barbara, a Treatment Foster Care parent, answers to more than one affectionate name, earned during her time providing care to girls who’ve come to find a loving, stable home with her as part of Good Shepherd’s Treatment Foster Care program (TFC). Our team salutes her for […]
By Amanda Carriker, Family Development Specialist Good Shepherd Children and Family Services is piloting a new program called Treatment Foster Care (TFC). TFC is designed for those youth with behaviors that require them to be staffed above a Level A or Level B home. These kids have been through […]
