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Thank you for your interest in joining our village!

Volunteers like you contribute to our special programs, which directly support Utah’s children in foster care! Here's how you can help...

Help relieve financial stress for foster families!

Duties: Work with our volunteer coordinator to organize a drive at your church, school, company, or neighborhood to benefit children in foster care.

Attention! Before you organize a drive…

We request that you confirm which items will be collected prior to starting the drive. Needs vary throughout the year and our storage space is very limited.

Host a Lunch & Learn

Invite a member of our team to your place of business to share Utah Foster Care’s important mission with your employees and community. To host a gathering, contact Dan Webster (e-mail).

Kids Night Out at your Offices

  • Duties: One Friday evening each month, foster parents can drop their kids off from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Volunteers play games, watch movies, organize crafts or other activities, and eat pizza with the kids while our foster parents enjoy some much deserved free time!
  • Time: 3.5 Hours

While this is typically done at our local Utah Foster Care Offices, we welcome groups to propose hosting at their church, business, or organizational locations.  Volunteers must be age 16 and older and will be required to watch a short training video.

Help us Foster Futures

We are looking for organizations who would like to participate in our initiative to foster Belonging, Opportunity, Success, and Support (B.O.S.S.) for youth in foster care.  This could include things like hosting a youth field trip to your business and presenting career opportunities in your field, hosting or organizing events that bring youth together, etc.

Have something else in mind?

Harness the power of your company’s team spirit to build the foster care village. Our volunteer coordinator, Melina Moore (email) can help with ideas!

The time you spend organizing donations is time our staff can further our mission.

Duties: Help your local Utah Foster Care office sort through donated items and assist to distribute items to our foster families.

Time: 2-4 hours.

Our public events are an important part of our public awareness and fundraising efforts.

Duties: Help out at one of our yearly events such as the Chalk Art Festival, Fostering Hope Luncheon, or other local events.

Time: 2-4 hours, depending on event or activities leading up to event.

Helping children in foster care maintain connection with their parents while providing support to foster parents and caseworkers.

Duties: Facilitate visits between children in foster care and their parents. These visits require supervision, and Family Time Supervisors help make this possible by allowing caseworkers and foster parents to focus on other responsibilities. Supervisors work together with the child’s parents, foster parents, and caseworker to coordinate an appropriate public location and time for the visit. The Family Time Supervisor then meets with the child and their parent at the approved location.

Time: Typically 1-2 hours per week for the duration of the case, often 6-12 months.

In order to volunteer, you must be age 18+, complete the Family Time Supervisor training, and pass a criminal background screening.

A private meet and greet can educate community members about our critical mission.

Duties: Host family, friends, or coworkers at a 1-hour event designed to raise awareness of Utah Foster Care.

Time: Time spent inviting and confirming guests, plus the 1-hour event.

Give Foster Parents the Night Off!

*Currently only available in the Salt Lake and Orem areas.

DutiesOnce a month on either a Friday or Saturday, foster parents can drop their kids off for 2.5 hours. Volunteers play games, watch movies, organize crafts or other activities, and eat with the kids while our foster parents enjoy some much-deserved free time! 

Time: 3  Hours

While this is typically done at our local Utah Foster Care Offices, we welcome groups to propose hosting at their church, business, or organizational locations. In order to volunteer, participants must be age 16 and older and will be required to watch a short training video.

Support Foster Parents by Helping Around the House

Duties: Participate in a project to help a family around their home. If you know how to patch drywall, you’ll win everyone over. This is for those who really want to get their hands dirty (literally!) 

Time: Approximately 3-6 hours per event, depending on the project 

What’s Cooking!?

Duties:  Give foster families a night when they don’t have to cook. Prepare or purchase dinner, then drop it off to a foster family in your area once a month 

Time: 1-2 hours a month

Calling all Bargain Hunters!

Duties: Gather virtually once or twice a month with other volunteers to plan ways you can help in your community by reaching out to businesses and gathering resources for foster families. Great for those who want to brainstorm ideas and who don’t mind asking for donations and discounts.

Time: 3+ hours a month

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