Foster Care Websites

Organizations That Support Foster Families

• 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 Bureau
  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.
  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.