Foster and Adoptive Parent Resources
Disclaimer – Lewis Labadie provides these resources to assist parents. The items and services may change over time. We are not responsible for any of their work or services.
Disclaimer – Lewis Labadie provides these resources to assist parents. The items and services may change over time. We are not responsible for any of their work or services.
A Mighty Change of Heart supports foster and kinship children by providing personalized duffle bags filled with essentials like books, toys, clothes, and more. Located in Waddell, AZ.
Website: https://amchaz.org/
Phone: (623) 308-5428
Email: information@amchaz.org
Advocacy31nine is a nonprofit organization that helps foster care and adoptive families through the special education process by providing advocacy and resources.
Website: https://amchaz.org/
Phone: (480) 757-4100
AZAFAP provides members with fun activities such as picnics, camps, staycations, childcare for parent’s night out, swimming lessons, and more. They provide children with clothes, toys, and bicycles, and they offer parent training and a support network to foster parents. Located in Peoria.
Website: https://www.azafap.org/
Phone: (602) 884-1801
Email: info@azafap.org
AFFCF seeks to improve the lives and enhance self-esteem of children in foster care by funding activities like summer camps and sports, and providing educational and career planning support.
Website: https://www.affcf.org/
Phone: (602) 252-9445
AZGA helps grandparents and kinship caregivers by providing a network of support and resources. Locations in central and southern Arizona.
Website: https://www.azga.org/
Email: info@azga.org
Arizona Helping Hands is an organization that provides essential items for children including beds, clothing, diapers, wipes, and educational activities. They also provide school supplies, birthday packages, footlockers, and home licensing items, such as fire extinguishers.
Website: https://azhelpinghands.org/
Phone: (480) 889-0604
Legal services provided are Consumer, Criminal, Divorce, and Education
Website: https://lawyers.justia.com/legalservice/arizona-justice-institute-9014
Phone: (602) 252-3432
Arizona Pool Fence partners with Boost a Foster Family and the Phoenix Fire Department to find and evaluate families in need and provide pool fences at little to no cost.
Website: http://www.poolfencesinphoenix.com
Phone: (602) 840-5591
ASA Now is a non-profit organization that ADVOCATES for, SUPPORTS, and ASSISTS children and foster care families by providing advocacy, workshops, support groups, training, food assistance, retreats, respite, family and holiday events, and more.
Website: http://www.asanow.org/
Phone: (623) 428-1592
Email: hope@asanow.org
Boost a Foster Family assists low-income kinship families with the financial hurdles associated with applying for foster care licensure. They provide fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, CPR classes, medical exams, locked medicine boxes, gun safes, pool fences, and more.
Website: http://www.boostafosterfamily.org
Phone: (480) 298-5665
Email: boostafosterfamily@gmail.com
CAA seeks to improve children’s health, education, and wellbeing by influencing Arizona’s policies. They help with advocacy and navigating behavioral health services. Office locations in Phoenix and Tucson.
Website: https://azchildren.org/
Phone: (602) 266-0707
Email: caa@azchildren.org
Child Crisis Arizona’s Family Education Program offers workshops, classes, support, and activities that center around building strong families. They also work to license and certify parents for foster care and adoption, and provide education and training.
Website: https://childcrisisaz.org/
Phone: (480) 834-9424
Email: info@childcrisisaz.org
Fostering/Foster Parenting and Adoption in Arizona. Report Child Abuse or Neglect, How to make a report of suspected child abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment: https://dcs.az.gov/report-child-abuse
Website: https://dcs.az.gov/foster
Phone: 1-888-767-2445
DCS forms: https://dcs.az.gov/resource/forms
E3 AZ Foundation provides stuffed animals with inspirational messages, photography sessions, workshops, and motivational sessions. Check out their website for more information and future services. Located in Surprise.
Website: e3az.org
Phone: (623) 670-2352
Email: e3azorg@gmail.com
Eagle Pathway serves children and single mothers that have experienced foster care or homelessness. They provide housing, meals, clothing, and resources for education and job training.
Website: www.eaglepathway.org
Phone: (602) 524-4464
Email: eaglepathwayaz@gmail.com
Empower 2 Heal has a podcast with healing and empowering stories of folks with trauma and other mental health diagnosis, sharing how everyday people are healing through everyday ordinary and magical experiences.
Website: www.Empower2Heal.com
Email: denat@empower2heal.com
FIC helps with navigating behavioral health services through family support, youth programs, counseling, AHCCCS enrollment assistance, mental health outpatient services, and advocacy for kinship and adoptive parents and children. Locations throughout Arizona.
Website: http://www.familyinvolvementcenter.org
Phone: (602) 412-4095
Email: info@familyinvolvementcenter.org
Legal services provided: Immigration Law
Website: https://lawyers.justia.com/legalservice/friendly-house-inc-immigration-department-9015
Phone: (602) 257-1870
Foster Arizona provides kid connection events throughout the year, foster and adoption blogs and videos, and a housing program for children aging out of foster care.
Website: https://fosterarizona.org/
Phone: (480) 369-0377
Foster Coalition is a foster care related resource website. The link below provides a list of all Foster Care Closets by state.
Website: https://www.fostercoalition.com/foster-care-closets
Gen Justice provides free legal assistance in child welfare matters to benefit foster children, and they provide training for foster parents and kinship caregivers about their rights and the rights of their foster children.
Website: https://www.genjustice.org/request-legal-help/
Phone: (844) 436-5878
Email: hello@genjustice.org
Gentry Pediatric Behavioral Services offers scholarships to cover costs for low-income families that need to have their child evaluated for autism and other psychological or behavioral issues.
Website: http://www.gentrypbs.com/index.php
Phone: (602) 368-3282
Email: info@gentryPBS.com
GoodThreads provides free clothing to foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Located in Tucson.
Website: https://www.goodthreads.net/
Phone: (602) 788-2444
HCC provides food, hygiene, baby and clothing items free to the public. Each guest is allowed one visit every 30 days. HCC has three locations in the Phoenix area.
Website: https://harvestcompassioncenter.org/
Phone: (602) 788-2444
Legal services provided are Civil Rights and Health Care
Website: https://lawyers.justia.com/legalservice/hiv-aids-law-project-halp-9016
Phone: (602) 258-3434
Helen’s Hope Chest provides clothes, hygiene products, school supplies, baby care items, and other gifts to foster children, foster families, and kinship families.
Website: https://helenshopechest.org/
Phone: (480) 969-5411
Email: info@helenshopechest.org
“Helping Prevent Common Household Accidents.” Assists with CPR and First Aid certification. They provide a multitude of other services, like car seat installation checks.
Website: http://homehazardprevention.com/
Phone: (480) 448-0266
Jheri is a teen coach that helps teens manage their stress, build self-confidence, manage emotions, become accountable, improve their relationships with themselves and others, and create successful habits. She offers private coaching, teen and youth programs, and workshops.
Website: https://www.jherisouth.com/home-1
Jose’s Closet helps children feel more at home by providing clothes, toys, baby equipment, diapers, formula and more to foster and kinship families. Located in Apache Junction.
Website: https://josescloset.org/
Phone: (480) 309-1743
Kids on the Grow provides clothing for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Located in Coolidge.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2485921674854816/
Phone: (520) 371-1102
The KARE Family Center provides assistance to children, foster families, and kinship families that need help maintaining permanency, and for children transitioning from foster care. They provide resources, education, and training to ensure children receive the support they need and stay involved with older youth after they graduate. Located in Tucson.
Website: https://www.casey.org/who-we-are/locations/kare/
Phone: (206) 282-7300
Maricopa County Volunteer Lawyers Program case types include AIDS/HIV, Bankruptcy, Consumer, Custody, Dissolution of Marriage, Domestic Violence, Education, Elder Law, Employment, Housing, Individual Rights, Juvenile, Public Benefits, Real Estate, Torts, Wills and Estates.
Website: https://lawyers.justia.com/legalservice/
Phone: (602) 506-7948
More Than a Bed is a foster, kinship, and adoptive family resource center that provides essential items like beds, clothing, household items, cribs, car seats, and more. They also hold events and programs throughout the year. Warehouse located in Tucson.
Website: https://www.morethanabed.org
Phone: (520) 428-5280
New Life Pregnancy Center provides parenting classes and counseling. They also give free diapers, wipes, and clothing to caregivers in need once per month. Multiple locations throughout Arizona.
Website: https://newlifepregnancy.com/
Phone: (800) 878-4574
Email: info@newlifepregnancy.com
Partnering with other foster and kinship family support groups, One For All provides free resources like food, clothes, cribs and beds, car seats, wipes, hygiene items, school supplies, toys, and gifts. They offer support groups and training workshops.
Website: http://one4allaz.com/
Phone: (602) 802-8968
Onward Hope assists with home recruitment, study, supervision, foster parent pre-service training, and parent aid. They have a Transitional Youth Outreach Program that provides coaching support to older teens and young adults that have been in foster care.
Website: https://www.onwardhope.org/
Phone: (480) 441-2723
Peace of My Mind offers free community training on mental health through motivational speakers, webinars, and media.
Website: http://www.pommconsulting.com
Email: info@pommconsulting.com
The P.O.W.W.O.W. program rescues produce that distributors where unable to sell that would otherwise be thrown away. Visit the calendar on their website to see where their weekly markets are located to buy up to 70 pounds of produce for only $12.
Website: http://www.borderlandsproducerescue.org/
Phone: (520) 287-2627
Protect A Child Pool Fence Company gives discounts to foster families.
Website: https://protectachild.com/
Phone: (772) 398-3400
Risas Dental and Braces helps with braces for foster and adopted children.
Website: https://risasdental.com/
Phone: (844) 651-5280
Royal Family KIDS offers a summer camp and mentoring program for children in foster care ages 7-11. You can send your child to summer camp where they get loved on, poured into, encouraged and have lots of giggles under the cathedral of the great outdoors!
Website: https://gilbert.royalfamilykids.org/
Phone: (480) 208-1438
Spreading Threads provides clothes and other items to foster, foster/adoptive, and kinship families. Visit their website for clothing bank events. Located in Tucson.
Website: https://www.spreadingthreads.com/parent-and-child-services/
Phone: (520) 971-3237
Upsolve is a national legal aid organization. We provide assistance to low-income clients. Clients use our online application to fill out their paperwork. Then, an attorney reviews their paperwork before individuals file for bankruptcy.
Website: https://upsolve.org/
This church has a food and clothing bank that gives to families in need twice a month. Located in Glendale.
Website: https://vineyardnorthphoenix.com/foodbank/
Phone: (623) 934-4000
Email: pvandernaalt@vineyardnorthphoenix.com