Fosterful

Fosterful mobilizes volunteers who sit with children to offer comfort, care, and companionship during a very difficult time. We serve foster children on call at child welfare offices through our three pillars. 1. Fosterful Caring Companions Volunteers - Recruiting, training, and mobilizing volunteers regularly so that we can build capacity in our Forsterful sites in Washington. Our goal is to have ample volunteers so that when a social worker requests a volunteer to sit with a child at the child welfare office, one is available., 2. Basic Necessities - including clothing, food, and backpacks/duffle bags to children experiencing foster care. Our volunteers outfit a child so that when they enter a foster care home they take a new set of clothing, a warm coat and shoes that fit. We provide food to fill a child's belly when it may have been hours since they last ate. 3. Nurturing Environment - Maintain a nurturing space for children to wait with the Fosterful 'Caring Companion' volunteer. Built out of Fosterful volunteers, these spaces in the child welfare offices contain comfortable furnishings, therapeutic toys, engaging books, games and puzzles to keep a child busy while their social worker finds a foster home. These items get heavily used, so ongoing maintenance is required.