🌟 Meet Nicholas Kelly, a single foster dad who turned his family business, Kelly's Tavern in Gainesville, GA, into a Foster Friendly Business! 🌟 Nicholas's dedication to supporting foster families has not gone unnoticed. Kelly's Tavern is now part of Georgia Kids Belong's Foster Friendly Businesses program, which aims to connect foster families with the local support and discounts they need to thrive. The Foster Friendly App is making a huge difference by helping foster families feel valued and appreciated, just like our first responders and military families. 🙌 🇺🇸 Want to join the movement and help us build Foster Friendly Communities across America? Learn more about how your business can get involved here: https://bit.ly/3yGQ099 Let's work together to make a positive impact on the lives of foster families in our communities! ❤️ #FosterFriendlyBusiness #SupportFosterFamilies #SocialResponsibility #CommunitySupport
America's Kids Belong
Non-profit Organization Management
Loveland, Colorado 1,264 followers
We dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes of kids in foster care.
About us
America’s Kids Belong is dramatically improving experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care. We focus in three areas: 1 - Recruit and retain more foster and adoptive parents to ensure a family for every child. 2 - Equip communities, businesses and faith communities to become Foster Friendly to ensure a Foster Friendly community for every family. 3 - Create coalitions for change across government, business and faith to bring hope to every community. Imagine being a young child whisked out of your home by strangers. It’s a traumatizing reality for 400,000+ kids in the U.S. foster care system. With just half the needed foster homes, children get shuffled from placement to placement, made to feel like they don’t belong. And for the 26,000 kids who age out without a family, outcomes are dire. The America’s Kids Belong team of 50 includes two former foster youth, 150+ foster placements and 34 adoptions. We “live the mission,” and lean into our lived experiences to infuse empathy and wisdom into our work. Our mission is to dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care. A healthy family is the most powerful way to do this. Our three investment areas seek to ensure: * A family for every child. We recruit foster/adoptive parents through public awareness and our I Belong Project, a video storytelling initiative that amplifies voices of adoption-eligible kids in care to match them with families. Our 2,500 videos have helped 900+ kids find adoptive families. * Foster-Friendly communities for every family. We equip communities – businesses, faith and community groups - via our Foster Friendly App to offer discounts, services, support and encouragement to help families foster longer and stronger. The App has 8,500 users and 1,500 offers so far. * Hope for every community. Our trusted relationships with child welfare enable us to coalesce these same community partnerships to drive sustainable change in foster care.
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americaskidsbelong.org
External link for America's Kids Belong
- Industry
- Non-profit Organization Management
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Loveland, Colorado
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Foster care, Foster Friendly Communities, Foster-Adopt, Community Engagement, and Foster Parenting
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Primary
Get directions
1151 Eagle Dr
PMB #464
Loveland, Colorado 80537, US
Employees at America's Kids Belong
Updates
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🎙️ True Confessions! 🚌 Have you ever made a questionable purchase that seemed like a great idea at the time? Well, even Travis Vangsnes , host of The Foster Friendly Podcast, admits that buying a bus for an "HGTV style renovation" was a misbegotten idea. Join Travis, Brian Mavis and Courtney Williams each Wednesday as they bring foster care closer to home and chat with inspiring individuals who are making a difference in our communities. Get to know the team in Episode 1 and tune in weekly for new episodes wherever you listen to podcasts. Unlike Travis' bus, this podcast is going places! 🌟 #FosterCare #Podcast #TrueConfessions #CommunityBuilding #FosterFriendly
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🎙️Bernie Lattner recently appeared on our Foster Friendly Podcast to discuss the effects of "adverse childhood experiences" (ACES) on the development and outcomes of children in foster care. Bernie emphasized the importance of "one supportive adult in your life" as a proven way to cultivate resilience. Listen and subscribe now at https://bit.ly/3AuIDSI
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Meet Courtney Williams, host of The Foster Friendly Podcast and AKB's FosterCon webinars. A busy working mom of six kids, she and her husband also have fostered 60+ children. Learn more about Courtney's inspiring journey on Episode 1 of the podcast, where she shares her story alongside co-hosts Travis Vangsnes and Brian Mavis Tune in now wherever you listen to podcasts and be inspired! #FosterFriendly #AdoptionJourney #PodcastHosts
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🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the Foster Friendly Podcast featuring foster/adoptive dad and prison chaplain Bernie Lattner. He shares powerful stories from the frontlines about the foster care to prison pipeline and how we can disrupt it to help kids in foster care toward healthier outcomes. Don't miss this eye-opening discussion! #FosterCare #PrisonPipeline #FosterFriendlyPodcast 🌟🔗 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4diKeJY
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Check out this inspiring story from Brian Mavis, founder of America's Kids Belong, about the day a child welfare worker challenged him to "change who waits." By recruiting and retaining more than enough foster families, AKB works to ensure that kids in care no longer have to be the ones waiting. This challenge continues to drive AKB's mission today. #fostercare #inspiration #changewhowaits 🌟👨👩👧👦 Hear the full story on Episode 1 of The Foster Friendly Podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Looking to learn more about adopting from foster care and hear inspiring stories from families who have grown through adoption? Join us for the second webinar in our 2024 FosterCon series: Fostering Permanency. Register today at https://bit.ly/46qMIDK. In this webinar, you will have the opportunity to meet three families with remarkable and unique stories about growing their families through adoption from foster care. Did you know that more than 100,000 kids in foster care are waiting for adoptive families? By attending this webinar, you can learn more about the adoption process, the steps involved, and how you can explore the possibility of growing your family through adoption. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights, information and inspiration from families who have navigated the adoption journey. Join us for Fostering Permanency and take the first step towards making a difference in a child's life. Register now and be a part of something truly special. #FosterCare #Adoption #FosteringPermanency #FosterCon2024
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Did you know that approximately 100,000 kids in foster care cannot be reunified with their bio families and are in need of adoptive homes? The second webinar in FosterCon 2024 is Fostering Permanency. Join us on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET for an informative and inspirational discussion. Courtney Williams will lead the conversation with adoptive mom to 7 siblings, Pam Willis, foster adoptive mom Hannah Rodriguez from Georgia, and child-welfare specialist Lisel Atherton. Register for this and other FosterCon events at https://bit.ly/3A0WwrJ. #FosterCon2024 #FosteringPermanency #Adoptivon
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"We have children on TV begging for families. In America, Why?" Join Barry Farmer on Episode 2 of The Foster Friendly Podcast as he and cohosts Courtney Williams and Travis Vangsnes discuss the hard, beautiful, and sometimes funny realities of caring for kids from hard places. 🎙️Subscribe and give us a five-star review to help us bring foster care closer to home for more people! Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts. #FosterCare #FosterFriendlyPodcast #FamilyMatters
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🌟 Have questions about adopting from foster care? 🌟 Join us for the second webinar in the 2024 FosterCon series: Fostering Permanency! Get all the answers you need on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Register now at https://bit.ly/4ff2JAF. Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to learn and grow as a potential adoptive parent. See you there! #FosterCare #Adoption #FosterCon2024 👨👩👧👦