Raise awareness of National Foster Care Month and encourage involvement in your community! Access these tools to support your promotional, outreach, and social media activities.

View information about the National Foster Care Month initiative and the Children's Bureau's commitment to engaging youth and helping them leave care with strengthened relationships, concrete supports, and opportunities.

Raise awareness of National Foster Care Month and encourage involvement in your community! Access these tools to support your promotional, outreach, and social media activities.

View the recording from the National Foster Care Month 2024 event, hosted by the Children’s Bureau and the Capacity Building Center for States, that highlighted the theme of supporting the mental health needs of children and youth in foster care and their caregivers.

Below are resources that highlight an array of strategies that child welfare professionals can use to holistically support youth leaving care. They include an emphasis on relational permanency, a focus on mental health, and the importance of tapping into federally funded programs that can help open the door to safe and stable housing, health ...

View the recording from the National Foster Care Month 2023 event, hosted by the Children’s Bureau and the Capacity Building Center for States, that highlighted the theme of supporting the mental health needs of children and youth in foster care and their caregivers.

The National Foster Care Month campaign works to raise awareness about the role of foster parents, family members, volunteers, mentors, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and other members of the community who help children and youth in foster care find permanent homes and connections.

National Adoption Month (NAM) in November is a time to raise awareness about adoption and bring attention to the 109,000 children with legal permanency goals of adoption who are at risk of aging out of foster care without permanent family connections.

The Children's Bureau's National Adoption Month campaign seeks to increase awareness of adoption, bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens experiencing the U.S. foster care system, and emphasize the value of lifelong connections.

Foster care is a temporary, court-monitored service provided by States to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and youth. The Federal government supports State foster care services through program funding and legislation.