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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Duties: Once 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.
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
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
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
