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Clusters

Support Groups for Utah's Foster Families

Your Source for Peer Support

Clusters bring together foster, adoptive, kinship, and specific care families all around the state. Parents who attend their cluster gatherings make new friends, share experiences, and have access to in-person training that counts towards their annual re-licensing training requirements. Our clusters are organized by region. Find the group that works best for your family—maybe it’s the one closest to your home or it’s the one with a schedule that best matches your own. We’ve found that parents who are able to attend their local gatherings regularly build the relationships and skills that will help them through their foster parenting journey.

For privacy reasons, these groups are by invitation only. Please contact the region staff moderator below to be invited.

Our local support group feels more like an extended family, and the strength we receive from other foster parents could not be found anywhere else. We can reach out to each other, because we know the other families are in or have been in our situation.

- Foster Parent

Serving Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Rich, & Weber Counties.

Cluster Facilitators:

  • Cache Valley — Facilitated by Jessie in Logan
  • Box Elder — Facilitated by Brittany C in Brigham City
  • Ogden — Facilitated by Cami in Ogden
  • Weber West — Facilitated by Sandy in Ogden
  • North Davis Co — Facilitated by Shelena in Clearfield
  • South/Central Davis Co — Facilitated by Jennifer in Clearfield

Jenny Peterson —(385) 498-4046 — manages the groups for this part of the state.

Serving Salt Lake & Tooele Counties.

Cluster Facilitators:

  • Salt Lake Metro — Kelly M
  • Kearns/Magna/WVC — Kylie
  • Sandy/Draper — Janet M
  • Southwest Valley — Flor P
  • West Jordan — Ruthann
  • Murray/Midvale/East Salt Lake — Nan & Marcos
  • Tooele —  Katie Fowler

Tina Porter —(801) 783-4655 — manages the groups for this part of the state.

Serving Juab, Millard, Summit, Utah, & Wasatch Counties.

Cluster Facilitators:

  • North Utah Co — Emily Anderson
  • Timpanogos — Cindy Hall
  • Central Utah Co — Jodi Coleman
  • South Utah Co — Teresa
  • Wasatch & Summit — Jennifer Hoover
  • Post-adoption — Anna Fechter
  • Kinship — Carmen Hall
  • Level 3 —  Mitzi & Melissa

Carmen Hall — carmen.hall@utahfostercare.org— manages the groups for this part of the state.

Serving Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, San Juan, & Uintah Counties.

Cluster Facilitators:

  • Uintah Basin — Jennifer Collar & Kaitlyn
  • Carbon & Emery — Jennifer Eden & Ellen Hadfield
  • Grand & San Juan — Joel Redd

Kobi Prettyman — kobi.prettyman@utahfostercare.org — manages the Carbon and Emery groups. Shannon Smith –shannon.smith@utahfostercare.org–manages the Uintah Basin. Joel Redd —joel.redd@utahfostercare.org–manages the Grand and San Juan groups. 

Serving Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Washington, & Wayne Counties.

Cluster Facilitators:

  • St George — Lexi
  • Cedar City — Bethany & Kylee
  • Richfield — Holly
  • Manti — Bonnie

Julie Smith (435) 216-0395— moderates the group for Washington, Iron, Kane, Garfield, and Beaver counties. Marissa Douglas — (435) 979-2233 — moderates the group for Sevier, Sanpete, Wayne, and Piute counties.

These Statewide Cluster Support Groups center around specific issues rather than a geographic area. 

Cluster Facilitators:

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