Partnership Programs

Trauma-Informed Parent Training and Mental Health Support

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. 

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.

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.

Expecting and Parenting Youth (EPY)

Fostering UNITY, the Alliance for Children’s Rights and Public Counsel partner to support the needs of Expecting and Parenting Youth. These strength-based mentoring services include academic support and engagement, life skills training, parent education and mentoring.

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.

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/