Four steps to fostering with Goshen
1. Let’s talk
Let’s meet up for coffee or lunch to answer any questions you have and to see if you are the right fit.
2. Get Training
Our 6-part IMPACT training is engaging, relevant and practical, preparing you to care for your foster youth.
3. Get licensed
Goshen Homes guides you through the licensing and home study process.
4. Start fostering
You will then start fostering! Ongoing trainings, respite, and support groups will help you and your kids thrive.
Over 70% of siblings are separated during their time in foster care.
Goshen Homes exists to recruit, train, and support foster families working to keep siblings together during their time in foster care.
The Goshen Difference
Fostering is never easy, but fostering with Goshen can be a meaningful and rewarding experience. Some of the differences you’ll encounter fostering with Goshen include:
- Case management staff with smaller caseloads
- On-call emergency support
- Foster parent support groups
- Quicker home study & certification
- Extensive training program
- Respite support
Primary Care Foster
Our primary foster parents become full-time caretakers to the foster youth placed in their care. As a licensed sibling reunification agency, we focus on foster homes able to take in 2 or more youth. The increased work of caring for multiple foster youth is balanced with higher daily payment rates, lower case management turnover, applicable and relevant trainings, foster parent support groups, and partnerships with respite foster parents to provide an occasional break.
While fostering has its challenges, our parents tell us the best part about fostering is seeing the children get to be children. When they are able to laugh, go to summer camp, play and be silly, the children just come alive. In that moment, fostering makes so much sense.
If you are thinking about becoming a foster parent with Goshen Homes, the best next step is to contact us so we can have a conversation. After our chat, you can decide if it is a good fit and whether or not you should take the next step.
Respite Foster Care
Our respite foster parents become the “cool aunt and uncle” to our foster youth. As a respite foster parent, you are able to have an incredible impact on a foster child without the full time commitment of having them live in your home. In addition to the impact on the child, respite care allows our primary foster parents to take a breather and recharge. This is also sometimes called “short-term” foster care.
If you have been thinking about becoming a foster parent and are nervous about it, respite care is a good way to test the waters. Many respite care placements take place over a weekend, and rarely last longer than a week. You can even choose when you are available, so the schedule can be very flexible.
Curious about fostering with Goshen?
Our Fostering Guide answers many of the questions you may have as you begin considering your fostering journey.