November 15, 2017
Celebrating Holidays as a Foster Family
The winter holidays center around family traditions, celebrations, and growing together. For children in foster care, the holidays can present challenges....
October 25, 2017
Resources for Kinship Caregivers
When the Department of Child Safety removes a child from their home, they prefer placing the child with a relative if possible. As a result, over 4600...
September 29, 2017
Don’t Miss These Phoenix Food Trucks At The Annual Slider Throwdown
If foster care tax credits aren't incentive enough to support Arizona kids, how about creative gourmet sliders from Phoenix's best food trucks? The 6th...
September 15, 2017
You Don’t Have to Be a Hero
Arizona has a high demand for foster parents. In her article in the Arizona Daily Star, Foster care from the inside, Sarah Gessen discusses foster care,...
August 11, 2017
What’s in a Backpack?
For the fifth year in a row, generous donors and sponsors have helped AFFCF, and our partners, collect and raise funds to give away back to school backpacks...
July 22, 2017
Aging Out of Foster Care: The Voluntary Agreement
For young men and women in foster care, turning 18 represents independence. At this point, they can leave the foster care system. Many look forward to...
July 11, 2017
This Saturday: 5th Annual Backpack Drive
Last year, Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation were able to donate 5600 backpacks full of school supplies to children in foster care. This year,...
June 29, 2017
RAK Magazine Publishes Arizona’s Children Series
1014 children came in to foster care in May, 2017 – that’s an average of almost 33 children a day, every day. What happens next? Kris Jacober and...
June 15, 2017
The Foster Care Look
I can remember looking into the face of “M” in my rearview mirror on her first day in our home and thinking I had never seen a child so young (M was...