Attend one training to be certified with multiple agencies to babysit for foster families.   Participating agencies include 4Kids4Families, Arrow, Methodist Children's Home, Grace Manor, Christian Homes, Azleway, UpBring,Hope Haven,Buckner, Compass Connection and Noble. 

✅  The class is $10 to attend.

🤚 CPR hands on portion starts promptly at 5:30, class starts as soon as CPR class is finished around 6:10. 

📝 If you need CPR/First Aid, you will need to pay an additional $50 to E&E Heartsavers.  Their Venmo is Nancy-Elliott-CPR.  Then text Nancy at 903-714-5101 your name and email address to get started on the online portion of the course.

☎️ Then text Nancy at 903-714-5101 your name and email address to get started on the online portion of the course & to set up a time in person to do the hands on portion.

🗓️ Register to attend

💙 We invite you to come to a session of Soul Care Time with April Watters. The end goal of soul care is that you will flourish in the Spirit of the Lord, with increased capacity to function as His adopted child, in the fruits of his Holy Spirit alive in you.

April uses an eclectic blending of therapies such as E.F.T. and spiritual disciplines such as prayer to pour into us and decrease stress levels in the body.

✅ Register Here

Come meet and play games with some of The Fostering Collective's certified babysitters! 

We understand that finding a certified sitter can be a challenge and then feeling comfortable leaving your children with someone you don't know can be an even greater challenge.
We want to help connect you! Families and our certified sitters will come together to play games and get to know each other. When it comes time for you to call on a sitter, you can feel comforted to know familiar faces and names to add to your list of supporters!  
(This event is for families and sitters.)

✅ Register Here!

Got big behaviors? Do you want to break down walls and work towards building connection and healing our families together? Playfulness disarms the fear response in children.  It helps build connection, teaches social skills, problem solving, communication and life skills.  Laughing swaps the cortisol in our bloodstream with highly sought after chemicals in the brain: dopamine, oxytocin and endorphins. Dopamine can enhance learning, motivation, and attention.

Join us this summer for our “Play It Out” sessions.  Each session has been designed to address issues our families face in the trenches of dealing with big behaviors.  Self regulation, interception,  felt safety and sensory issues are just a few topics we will tackle together.  We have 10 total sessions with 5 different topics each week.  Each session is limited to 20 people so RSVP ASAP. It’s going to be a great summer filled with lots of fun and making great memories.

✅ Register Here!

Got big behaviors? Do you want to break down walls and work towards building connection and healing our families together? Playfulness disarms the fear response in children.  It helps build connection, teaches social skills, problem solving, communication and life skills.  Laughing swaps the cortisol in our bloodstream with highly sought after chemicals in the brain: dopamine, oxytocin and endorphins. Dopamine can enhance learning, motivation, and attention.

Join us this summer for our “Play It Out” sessions.  Each session has been designed to address issues our families face in the trenches of dealing with big behaviors.  Self regulation, interception,  felt safety and sensory issues are just a few topics we will tackle together.  We have 10 total sessions with 5 different topics each week.  Each session is limited to 20 people so RSVP ASAP. It’s going to be a great summer filled with lots of fun and making great memories.

✅ Register Here!

Got big behaviors? Do you want to break down walls and work towards building connection and healing our families together? Playfulness disarms the fear response in children.  It helps build connection, teaches social skills, problem solving, communication and life skills.  Laughing swaps the cortisol in our bloodstream with highly sought after chemicals in the brain: dopamine, oxytocin and endorphins. Dopamine can enhance learning, motivation, and attention.

Join us this summer for our “Play It Out” sessions.  Each session has been designed to address issues our families face in the trenches of dealing with big behaviors.  Self regulation, interception,  felt safety and sensory issues are just a few topics we will tackle together.  We have 10 total sessions with 5 different topics each week.  Each session is limited to 20 people so RSVP ASAP. It’s going to be a great summer filled with lots of fun and making great memories.

✅ Register Here!

Attention foster, adoptive and kinship families connected to The Fostering Collective!

☀️💦 Beat the heat with The Fostering Collective at Splash Kingdom on July 23rd. Join us for fun, snacks, and fellowship. 

🎟️ Tickets are $15 and include all day park entrance plus a meal voucher.  Ages 2 and under are free.

⏰ The park opens at 11am.  Snacks and waters will be at the Fostering Collective canopy til around 4:00. 

🗓️ Plan to stay all day with your family.  Don't miss this cool chance for some fun.  

✅ Register Here!

Got big behaviors? Do you want to break down walls and work towards building connection and healing our families together? Playfulness disarms the fear response in children.  It helps build connection, teaches social skills, problem solving, communication and life skills.  Laughing swaps the cortisol in our bloodstream with highly sought after chemicals in the brain: dopamine, oxytocin and endorphins. Dopamine can enhance learning, motivation, and attention.

Join us this summer for our “Play It Out” sessions.  Each session has been designed to address issues our families face in the trenches of dealing with big behaviors.  Self regulation, interception,  felt safety and sensory issues are just a few topics we will tackle together.  We have 10 total sessions with 5 different topics each week.  Each session is limited to 20 people so RSVP ASAP. It’s going to be a great summer filled with lots of fun and making great memories.

✅ Register Here!

💙 Foster, adoptive and kinship families join us for a great night of food, fun and fellowship before we head back to school. 

🎒 We will be passing out school supplies graciously collected and donated by Smith County Child Welfare Board.   

✏️ Come get all the supplies you need as you prepare for the upcoming school year.  Please register to attend.  

✅ Register Here