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Change a Lifetime
The theme of this year's celebration of National Foster Care Month is Change a Lifetime. Here's how you can share your heart, open your home and give hope.
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What Can I Do?

There are many ways you can help make foster care work. Here is just one (dozen):

Help Children in Foster Care

1. Offer to tutor a child
2. Offer a scholarship to participate in a gymnastics, music, or art class
3. Start or volunteer in an after-school program
4. Sponsor a child for a team, club or organization

Help Teens in Foster Care

5. Become a tutor or mentor
6. Offer an apprenticeship or job in your company
7. Contribute to or start a scholarship fund
8. Teach life skills such as career counseling or interview skills

Help Foster Parents

9. Help to find or offer affordable housing, or help repair existing housing
10. Provide a space in a child care program free of charge
11. Donate goods, such as car seats, toys and games, sleeping bags and pillows, luggage, musical instruments, books or a computer.
12. Provide short-term ("respite") child care for a day or weekend