Every Child Deserves a Helping Hand

Fostering Hope supports children, pre-teens, teens, and young adults affected by foster care throughout Northeast Ohio. These young individuals face challenges, fears, and feelings of isolation due to fractured family environments, through no fault of their own. We provide enriching experiences to help improve their childhood.

Our Programs

Our programs are designed to support the healing process for youth in residential treatment and foster care, by creating a nurturing environment where they can find hope for the future.

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Journey Bags

Birthday Program

Seasonal Gifts

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Residential

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Annual Program Stats

1,072

Classes Taught

400

Journey Bags Distributed

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1,100

Birthdays Celebrated

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Working with Beech Brook in foster care, I have seen the positive impacts of being able to give a journey bag to each child when they come into care. Fostering Hope provides not only necessities for the children with age-appropriate journey bags, but also hand-picked birthday presents for each child!

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Programs, Bags
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With my first fostering experience, I had 2 boys arrive with a few grocery bags of items. The Journey Bags provided so many necessities and reinforced they are not alone in this phase of their life and others care about them.

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Programs, Bags
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We are truly grateful for your kindness and generosity, not only on holidays, but throughout the year.

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The yoga class has helped the clients. They come back quieter, calmer, and more serene. The evening runs very smoothly following the class. There is less resistance, and everyone seems to treat their peers better too!

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Birthday, Programs
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These gifts you generously gave to us lets us know there are people like you who actually care about us. You went out of your way to make us feel happy.

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What is Trauma-Informed Care?

While we do not provide counseling or mentorship, all of our programming is trauma-informed to address the sensitive nature of these situations. Trauma-informed programming refers to the design of activities that are sensitive to the effects of trauma on individuals. This approach acknowledges the widespread impact of trauma and seeks to create environments and experiences that promote safety, empowerment, and healing.

Safety • Trustworthiness • Collaboration • Empowerment