Anonymous
Post 01/02/2017 01:47     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
Another vote for CASA, if you're willing to commit to a child for at least a year and have at least a couple hours a week to volunteer.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 23:22     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
Anonymous wrote:I thought someone here might have ideas. I think I might like to be a foster parent down the line, and have always felt drawn to help foster kids and foster parents, but I don't have any personal connection to that community. I am 30, single and childless and I have worked as a nanny and Newborn Care Specialist for nearly a decade. I'd love to use some of my knowledge and skills to support these kinds of families. Does anyone know of an organization that might be a good fit?


What a wonderful thing to do, OP! You would be an awesome, dream-come-true Respite Care volunteer (someone who takes the foster child for a day or a weekend on a regular basis to provide an opportunity for the foster parent who needs this support). In your area, Northern Virginia Family Service is a nonprofit that has this program. Look on www.nfs.org and click on Foster Care.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 14:22     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
DCFYI. https://www.dcfyi.org/
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 14:20     Subject: Re:How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
^ Not foster kids, but kids in need of adult support.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 14:20     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
The Comfort Cases mission.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 14:19     Subject: Re:How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
Become a child advocate? https://www.scanva.org/child-advocacy/
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2016 14:10     Subject: Re:How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
CASA in Fairfax
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2016 20:06     Subject: Re:How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
CASA! Wonderful program.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2016 00:09     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
I'm in Fairfax County, near Alexandria area
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2016 22:00     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
CASA
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2016 21:52     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
If Howard County isn't your geographic area, reach out to this group still, and see if they can refer you to their counterparts in neighboring counties.

http://voicesforchildren.org/fostering-futures/
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2016 21:46     Subject: How can I volunteer to help foster kids/families?
I thought someone here might have ideas. I think I might like to be a foster parent down the line, and have always felt drawn to help foster kids and foster parents, but I don't have any personal connection to that community. I am 30, single and childless and I have worked as a nanny and Newborn Care Specialist for nearly a decade. I'd love to use some of my knowledge and skills to support these kinds of families. Does anyone know of an organization that might be a good fit?