About Us
About The New Foster Care
The New Foster Care envisions a future where every young person with experience in foster care can transition into adulthood equipped with the skills needed to lead a meaningful life. The Bridge Program helps youth by creating a vision for the future, and empowers them on their journey to independence.
Participants work with a Transition Navigator, Peer Support Specialist, Personal Wellness Coach, and Attorney to address any issues hindering their progress and develop a strategy for success along 6 life domains:
Education, Employment, Housing, Transportation, Mental & Physical Health, and Community Connection.
Mission
The New Foster Care will show the love of Jesus Christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the Michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care.
Vision
The New Foster Care will positively CHANGE a child's trajectory, CHANGE their life, CHANGE the system; create a NEW Foster Care.
Our Values
Steadfast Belief
Those we serve are made in God's image and have a purpose that is not defined by their current situation.
(Psalms 139:13-14)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Unconditional Love
We empower those we serve by showing unconditional love and support, recognizing that how we treat them is a reflection of how we treat The Lord.
(Matthew 22:39)
And the second is like it: 'Love thy neighbor as yourself'.
Relentless Advocacy
We have a God given mandate to resolutely aid people in and aging out of foster care.
(James 1:27)
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Humility & Collaboration
We humbly work with anyone to help those we serve.
(Philippians 2:3-4)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others.
Professional Excellence
We achieve results by working tirelessly to accomplish our mission and act with a sense of urgency, persistence, and accountability.
(Colossians 3:23-24)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
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Winner of Best Non Profit
We are honored to be awarded The Best Non Profit in the Community Choice Awards hosted by the Detroit Free Press for 2023 and 2024.
