Youth Villages provides foster parents with intensive training
Youth Villages, a leader in children’s mental and behavioral health, is looking for compassionate individuals and families willing to open their home to children in the foster care system.
Every day, youth ranging from newborns to teenagers, coming from diverse backgrounds and unique challenges, enter the foster care system. Each needs stability, love and support as they navigate this difficult time in their lives, which foster parents can provide.
“When a child is removed from their home, we want to minimize the disruptions to their life. This means keeping them with their siblings, in their same school and connected to their friends and activities,” says Jeremy Breithaupt, director of community-based program strategy for Youth Villages. “In order to do that for every child in the Upper Cumberland, we need more foster homes in every county throughout the region.”
Youth Villages provides foster parents with intensive training, ongoing support and financial assistance to ensure they can meet the needs of the children in their care.
To learn more about becoming a foster parent, attend a free, one-hour virtual information session to:
- Discover the qualifications and expectations of foster parents
- Learn more about the training process to become foster parents
- Understand the ongoing support Youth Villages provides
- Ask questions and meet other families exploring the journey of fostering
December virtual information sessions:
- Thursday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET
- Monday, Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET
- Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET
- Saturday, Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. CT / 11 a.m. ET
- Monday, Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET
- Wednesday, Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET
Register on the Youth Villages website or call 1-888-MY-YV-KID.
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