Rising Ground’s Family Foster Care program provides safe and nurturing care in the homes of trained foster parents to children who temporarily cannot be with their birth families. While working to ensure that the needs of the children are being met during this traumatic time, we concurrently work with birth parents to get them the help they need so they can be reunited with their children.
Our team of social workers and other trained staff including Parent Advocates and Co-parenting Facilitators, make sure each child has the individualized support they need and deserve. We place children with families in their own communities — with relatives or close family friends whenever possible — to provide continuity in their daily lives. We provide and connect children with everything from individual counseling and educational tutoring to behavioral supports and recreational activities to support their well-being. Foster parents receive intensive training and Rising Ground staff can be reached 24/7 to help them.
From the moment a child comes into Rising Ground’s care, we immediately begin to plan for a permanent home for them. We work intensively with birth parents to get them the help they need to be reunited with their children which can include anger management training, intimate partner violence support, or substance abuse counseling. Once families are reunited, we provide transitional and continuing support to ensure any issues or challenges are addressed in real time.
While we make every effort to reunite children with their parents, sometimes, families cannot give their children a healthy, safe, and permanent home. When this is the case, we find loving adoptive homes for children. In most cases these children are adopted by foster parents with whom they have an established, loving relationship. In preparation for adoption, we make sure that children and their new families have all the supports they need to stay on track in school, in good health, make friends, and achieve their dreams and goals.
Rising Ground provides support services for youth in foster care, helping them transition from foster care into independent living. All young people are part of the Rising Futures program and paired with a coach who ensures they have access to the long-term, comprehensive supports they need to achieve their potential.
Young women in our Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) live independently and are provided with supportive services encouraging personal growth and development, empowering them to make mature and healthy decisions.