Letter from the Board Chair
My friends,
2023 was a tremendous year to serve as chair of the Foster America Board, as I and my fellow board members proudly champion the organization’s growth while our new strategic framework takes root. Resulting from months of collaboration with many partners, Foster America’s evolved mission positions us to fundamentally change the way our nation supports families. Today, our strategy focuses on bringing together stakeholders from across the child welfare ecosystem in service of one goal – recognizing families’ unique needs and meeting them early, fully, and without child welfare involvement. Foster America firmly believes that every family, every child, deserves the resources they need to thrive, and that by providing those resources – when and where families want them – we can reduce our nation’s reliance on the foster care system. 2023 saw incredible progress toward making that vision a reality. Together with changemakers across the country, Foster America is demonstrating effective alternatives to referring families to a system that often leads to family separation. Our efforts harness the strengths and resilience that exist in every community to build a support system that families want and deserve. Foster America is connecting every day with government and community leaders who are committed to meeting parents at their earliest sign of need with resources to help them raise their children. We are working hand in hand with like-minded leaders to spread and scale innovations that work. I am so encouraged by all this organization has proven is possible. And there’s only more to come.
With gratitude,
Susan Notkin Board chair
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2023 Annual Report
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