Welcome To Fostering Together

Upcoming Events for children in care

and their foster familes:

Saturday, August 14 - Sunday, August 15 the Educational Resource Street Fair is happening in the Central District of Seattle. This annual event helps prepare children to return to school with tools they can use to be successful students: compters, books, backpacks, school supplies, tutors, mentors and more. For more information, or to register a student, go to: www.edrsf.org.

Educational Resource Street Fair:

Backpacks, books, school supplies, rain jackets
Cultural/Arts performances
Environmental protection
Parenting tools
Healthy families
Youth engagement: talent competition
Student essay contest (win a computer)
Job fair
Community resource information

Fostering Together is a collaborative program between the State of Washington and Olive Crest Foster Family Agency, a national leader in therapeutic focused services for children in the foster care.

Dedicated to finding prospective foster homes within Washington State, Fostering Together provides support and information for potential foster parents and assists them through thelicensing process.*

Fostering Together offers on-going support to caregivers through support groups,liaison services and genuine encouragement.

* King, Island, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties are served by Fostering Together

Foster Care Fact

African-American children make up 4.2 percent of the general population in Washington State, but 10.5 percent of children in foster care.

More African-American and African Immigrant Foster Families are needed! Please contact us today!

Foster Care Fact

In Washington, Native American children make up 2 percent of the child population and 8.4 percent of children in foster care.

Native American Families Needed

Become a foster parent...it's a family tradition.

Foster Care Facts

As of 2009, 2,837 foster children in the state of Washington were waiting to be adopted.

Foster & Adoption Agencies

Foster care was intended to be temporary, but many Washington children remain in care for years.

For children waiting to be adopted in Washington, the average length of stay in care is more than three years (37.8 months). On average, children who were adopted in 2007 spent about 34.7 months in care before the adoption was finalized.

Foster Care Fact

On average, children stay in the system for almost three years (31 months) before either being reunited with their families or adopted. Almost 20 percent wait five years or more.