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Foster Care Websites

  • The Alaska Center for Resource Families – Under contract with the State of Alaska Office of Children's Services to provide training and information to foster parents statewide to learn about the children who come into foster care.
  • Alaska Department of Education & Early Development – Provides information on districts and schools statewide.
  • Alaska Division of Public Health – Provides information on health assessment, health promotion, and disease prevention services. Provides links to health centers statewide.
  • Alaska Impact Alliance: 907 System Navigation – The 907 Navigation App is a free resource designed to help Alaskans easily find and navigate local resources, social services and benefit systems. It provides up-to-date information on available resources, step-by-step navigation support, and additional tools to assist individuals and families in accessing the support they need.
  • Beacon Hill – Beacon Hill supports vulnerable children and families by working to PRESERVE family connection, PREPARE families for lasting stability, and PROVIDE the care and tools needed to sustain them.
  • Children's Bure​​au – The Children’s Bureau (CB) focuses on improving the lives of children and families through programs that reduce child abuse and neglect, increase the number of adoptions, and strengthen foster care.​​
  • Early Childhood – Provides information, products and ideas for parents and teachers.
  • Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems – Facilitates the building and implementation of statewide comprehensive systems of care that supports family and community approaches to promoting positive early development and early school success for young children.
  • Facing Foster Care in Alaska – FFCA is a critical lifeline for youth in foster care and alumni ages 15-24. FFCA provides leadership training, laptop donations, educated child welfare staff and work on the legislative and judicial levels to improve the foster care system.
  • Foster Club – The club for foster kids and grown-ups who care.
  • Fostering Families Today – Produces a bimonthly magazine and is committed to helping hard-to-place youngsters find families who will accept and love them forever.​
  • Generations United – Provides information on kinship care programs, updates on federal and state legislation, legal options, housing, and public benefits.
  • Grandparents as Parents (GAP) – Provides programs and services to meet the urgent and ongoing needs of grandparents and other relative caregivers raising at-risk children.
  • iFoster – ​iFoster is a nonprofit dedicated to helping children and youth in foster care access the resources and opportunities they need to succeed. ​
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) – NICWA supports the safety, health, and spiritual strength of Native children. Grounded in Native values, we work to keep Native children with their families and their communities. 
  • National Foster Parent Association – Supports foster parents in achieving safety, permanence and well-being for the children and youth in their care.
  • Resource Family Advisory Board – Strengthen and improve support for resource families and the State of Alaska office of Children’s Services (OCS) as we partner to care for Alaska’s Children. Email: akresourcefamilyboard@yahoo.com.
  • Stone Soup Group – A statewide non-profit agency based in Anchorage, Alaska that provides assistance and support to families of children with special needs. They operate several programs, each with a specific focus on different ways they can help families supporting children with special needs to become informed, experienced, self-sufficient advocates for their children and themselves.
  • United Way Worldwide – Advances the common good, creating opportunities for a better life for all, by focusing on education, income and health.