Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Georgia is experiencing an explosive increase in its foster care population due to the Opioid epidemic and Coastal Georgia is feeling its effects too. There are approximately 170 children in Glynn County foster care but sadly fewer than 30 foster homes to serve those children and families in crisis. This means that on any given day, there are more than 100+ Glynn County children placed in foster homes outside of their local community all across the state of Georgia! This makes reunification of children and their birth parents much less likely and is a deterrent for maintaining strong, healthy family bonds.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Foster Care
FLM recruits, trains and licenses foster families through local church communities to provide Christian homes for children placed in foster care through the Department of Family and Children’s Services. FLM matches children and sibling groups ages 0-18 yrs. old with suitable foster homes to provide temporary care while their birth parents complete their case plan to reunite the family.
FLM also provides various assessments, home study services and therapeutic counseling services to promote family health and stability for the purposes of reuniting families as quickly as possible.
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
FLM is partnering with local churches to solve our communities’ foster care crisis. With more than 200 churches in Glynn County, if 1 family in every church said “Yes” to fostering a child in need, we would have more foster homes available than children in need of a home! Our goal is to recruit, train and license foster homes to care for the needs of local children entering into foster care in partnership with area churches so that children are not further traumatized and displaced from their local community and the natural family and relational supports.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
FLM is recruiting 20 initial church partnerships to raise awareness of the foster care problem and to serve those church families answering the call to foster local children in need. FLM trains and licenses foster homes to co-parent and form mentoring relationships with birth parents in anticipation of family reunifications. FLM provides assessments, home study and counseling and other wrap-around services to children and their birth parents to aid in successful family reunifications.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
FLM is a licensed child placing agency through the state of Georgia and has established several local church partnerships and is developing new ones. FLM provides awareness campaigns to churches and community partners and offers training to volunteers, foster and respite parents. FLM partners with several regional DFCS county offices to provide contract services to families engaged in child-welfare services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
FLM was licensed as a Christian Child Placing agency in May 2019 and is developing its base of funding streams in order to fully staff all its programs. FLM has provided training for 8 new families within the past 2 months. Three of these families have completed 24-hours of additional instructional training and are completing final steps to become licensed foster parents. FLM is currently hiring staff to provide more services to families through wrap-around, assessment, and counseling services.
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FOSTER LOVE MINISTRIES
Board of directorsas of 11/24/2019
Tony Bailey
Caroline Schofield
Attorney of Law
Katherine Oswald
Dept. of Family & Children's Services
Allan Cox
Coastal GA Community College
Kendall Shaw
Gilead Worship Center
Emily Hoffman
Certified Public Accountant