Foster Care and Adoption

Catholic Charities foster care program helps qualified individuals and couples become licensed foster parents. Our case managers facilitate the initial training and continue to provide ongoing training, resources and support. We recruit and support foster parents, therapeutic foster parents, kinship foster parents and unaccompanied minor foster parents.

What Drives a Foster Parent: a Q and A

Every foster parent has a story. We spoke with two of our most experienced foster parents in Northern Arizona to learn theirs. Bonnie and Diana are both foster parents with about 13 years of experience working with children in foster care. Between the two, they have fostered close to 100 children. Bonnie has adopted five of those foster children, and Diana has adopted six foster children.

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From Foster to Family, Rachel and Corey Adopted Four Kids in Two Years

From the time Rachel was in sixth grade, she told everyone she planned on being a foster mom.

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  1. 11 Years and 23 Lives Changed, Meet Therapeutic Foster Parents Alice and Dave
  2. From Foster Child to Foster Parent
  3. Overcoming the Fear to Foster
  4. From Tragedy to Triumph - The Life of Foster Parents

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