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We bring the voice of lived experience to the foster care table. We are current and former caregivers working with others to develop programs that support families with children impacted by foster care.
Please remember to keep confidential and case specific information out of the communications with FPAWS.
Family Time Network supervisors spent 34,236 minutes and 19,529.9 miles driven transporting children
FPAWS Volunteers Staff spent 2692 hours in meetings last year.
Our support staff spent 7439 minutes last year supporting families. Tuesday and Wednesday are the most popular days to receive calls.
We provide 152 of possible education hours each year for families
Promote self-efficacy of caregivers, children and their families.
FPAWS believes all children are entitled to a safe and nurturing family experience, and families recruited to provide such experiences deserve to be retained, respected and supported by the community.
FPAWS is a non-profit corporation chartered in January 1976 providing support and services to foster families throughout the State of Washington. We are a registered 501(c) 3, EIN 23-7300163, and a state affiliate of the National Foster Parent Alliance.
Today FPAWS is a support and advocacy organization representing adoptive/foster/kinship and birth parent voices at the Regional, State and National levels.
A scholarship from Together We Rise for current and former foster youth who are pursuing a trade degree/certification at a two-year college or vocational-technical school:
There are about 18,000 kinship caregivers in King County alone, and over 100,000 children in WA living with someone other than their parents. As the
The contract for First Aid-CPR training through the Alliance will end on June 30, 2023. To comply with WAC 110-148-1375, foster parents planning to renew their
In the two years since the CaRES program started, we have been listening and taking notes on what you need most as you take on
If someone says of Deanna that she was adopted, she corrects them and says that she is adopted. Being adopted is, to her, as to many adoptees, a profoundly different way of being human, one that affects almost everything about her life.
FPAWS has been working with Senator Rolfes and Representative Eslick to advocate for an increase in the basic rate of the foster care stipend this
