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      • About Us
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      • Join us
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    • What We Do
      • What We Do
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      • Our Programs
      • Partnership Programs
      • Virtual Support Groups
      • Events
      • Winter Wonderland
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C.A.R.E Help Line 213-269-0000

Fostering UNITY
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Board of Directors
    • CARE Service Specialists
    • Contact Us
    • Join us
    • Careers & Volunteers
  • What We Do
    • What We Do
    • Fostering UNITY Brochure
    • Impact Statements
  • Programs and Events
    • Our Programs
    • Partnership Programs
    • Virtual Support Groups
    • Events
    • Winter Wonderland
  • Referrals
    • Fostering UNITY Services
    • Purposeful Placement Post
    • Youth Services
    • DCFS/PST/FURS Follow-Up
  • Resources
    • Trainings
    • Covid-19
    • Medical/Dental
    • Community Services
    • Resource Parent Toolkit
    • Education
    • Recursos en español
    • Foster Care Closets
    • Fostering Parenthood
  • Donate
    • Donate
    • Foster Friends!
    • Winter Wonderland

Partnership Programs

Saving Innocence

We are proud to be able to connect resource parents (foster parents) to Saving Innocence which is an established, informed, and impactful organization that dedicates itself to helping our most vulnerable youth. 


Saving Innocence Foster Family Agency supports commercially sexually exploited children, youth (CSECY) and families, providing them with a range of services to ensure that each child and family has the opportunity to grow and develop within a safe, healthy, and secure environment. 


Specialized training includes CSEC 101, Trauma-Informed Caregiving, Harm Reduction, Safety Planning, Empowerment skills and resources that focus on healing for optimum growth and development. 


When children are recovering from exploitation, these young people need to live with adults who have: 

The Ability to: 

  • Help children and youth feel safe and comforted. 
  • Demonstrate that some adults can be trusted. 
  • Instill hope and inspiration to be successful in life. 


The RESOURCES to:

  • Have a child or young person live with you on a round-the-clock basis. 
  • Ensure transportation for education, medical care, and counseling services. 
  • Provide a quality of life that helps a child feel valued. 


The WILLINGNESS to:

  • Work with social service, probation, medical, legal, and other professionals to minimize trauma by maximizing teamwork. 
  • Contribute to the hopes and dreams of young people to restore and rebuild their lives. 
  • Be resilient advocates to stop the cycle of abuse right here, right now! 

Fostering Parenthood

Supporting youth in their healthy sexual development means ensuring the adults in their lives are empowered with what they need to provide effective support. Caregivers need resources that help them support youth through their sexual health journeys–and allow them to feel good about themselves while doing so. Traditional training doesn’t always go far enough or fit caregivers’ complicated, busy lives. This podcast was derived from a multitude of caregivers who gave their insight on relevant topics, episode structure, tangible resources, and effective communication strategies. 

Created to meet your needs, Fostering Parenthood is the newest podcast to support your foster care journey. 


Check out Fostering Parenthood today!


This podcast was brought to you by the Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (RHEP), the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), and Fostering UNITY. 


Fostering Parenthood is fully supported by grant number 1 TP2AH000066-01-00 from the HHS Office of Population Affairs. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Population Affairs.

DCFS Placement Stabilization Team Program

The LA County DCFS PST Team works very closely with children between ages 10-19 years old, who are considered higher-need placements with their complex behavioral needs. 

This program increases the services available to caregivers/kinship parents with their partnership with Fostering UNITY.  With the PST Program, caregivers would have:

  • 24/7 access to a Children’s Social Worker who is assigned to the youth and will respond at all hours, for any emergencies, via phone or in person 
  • Dedicated weekly check-ins with the youth and caregiver for placement stability
  • Assisted resource and program navigation to ease the stress of locating support 
  • Weekly support group with specialized topics related to these higher-need placements hosted by Dr. Melissa Daniels, Fostering UNITY CARE Service Specialist and Licensed Clinical Psychologist, M.A., Psy.D. 

Learn more

CarePortal Resource Referrals

Care Portal brings the needs of children and families in your community to the attention of local churches, giving them the opportunity to respond and meet the need.   Through a partnership with the CarePortal, Fostering UNITY CSS staff can assist with registering the specific caregiver need into the CarePortal system and giving the community an opportunity to respond.  

DCFS Therapeutic Shelter Home (TSH) Program

The LA County DCFS, Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services, and Fostering UNITY have joined together to create a pilot program to eliminate the need for group-setting Shelter Care. With the Therapeutic Shelter Home (TSH) pilot program, youth will be temporarily placed in individual foster homes focused on healing and resiliency skills. Caregivers will be automatically compensated each month with a specialized rate and each designated TSH will be uniquely supported by Fostering UNITY through specialized support groups, mentoring and educational training. Once a child is placed in the home, the Therapeutic Shelter Home Support Team will be immediately activated by Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services.

This unique collaborative real-time model of care will provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week of intensive family support that is available at the ready, for any needs involving the youth. The team will help

with school enrollment if needed, transportation, respite for the caregiver, issues surrounding the JV220 & medications, and any other necessary tasks to ensure the family's wellness and success.

I'm interested in this program!

FKCE Educational Support for Caregivers

Fostering UNITY and FKCE have partnered to offer enhanced caregiver training and support. Our CARE Service Specialists (CSS) provide follow-up support for RFA parents attending FKCE courses. Resource Parents who are identified as needing additional resources and education will receive on-going CSS support.  

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Family Urgent Response System (FURS)

Fostering UNITY provides post-FURS Urgent Response, by providing the peer mentoring support for aftercare and prevention services for youth, foster families, birth families, and kinship, including free Mental Health services for caregivers/kinship &/or youth thru our partnership with Harbor UCLA Medical Center’s Trauma Recovery Center.

Transitional Aged Youth Mentoring Program

Fostering UNITY and CA Foster Youth Initiative have partnered to offer the AmeriCorps Youth Mentor Program. This collaboration offers independent life skills mentoring, financial literacy training, tutoring, and academic success support.  

Harbor-UCLA Safe Harbor Trauma Recovery Center

Fostering UNITY and Harbor UCLA Trauma Recovery Center have partnered to offer free parent support and education, trauma-informed training, and mental health services to Resource Families. These services are provided by Mental Health Clinicians and followed up by on-going support from Fostering UNITY’s CSS team. 

Brain and Body Lab

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is a developmental psychology research lab that studies how early experiences with their caregivers influence children’s mental and physical wellbeing. They work with families of children and teens aged 6-18 years who have experienced a range of caregiving, including those who have been in foster care, have been adopted, and those who have always been with their birth/first family. The lab aims to use the information gained from their research to create better services and provisions for young people who are struggling with their physical and mental health. If you would like to participate in their research you may contact the friendly staff: (310) 909-7083 or visit their website: https://brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu/ 

(all information is courtesy of the Brain & Body Lab website)

Our Partnership with CASA Los Angeles

We are thrilled to partner with CASA of Los Angeles.  

You can check out their website at https://casala.org/


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