OPEN YOUR
HEART. HOME.
Open your heart.
Open your home.
In South Africa, there is a great need for parents and families who can rise to the challenge and provide care for our nation’s vulnerable children.
You could become a safety parent, foster parent or even choose to lend a helping hand to our families.
Kin Families: Family is the key to healthy children
Families are the best answer to a child in need. And a home environment is the best basis for healing and a healthy future.
This is where our incredible Kin Families play such an important role, opening their homes and hearts to children in need.
Parenting has never been an easy job, but it is certainly one of the most meaningful. And foster parenting has its own particular challenges, but also its own particular rewards. Because the situation is trauma sensitive, we do our utmost to equip and prepare our prospective parents – helping them navigate the admin, the system and the emotional highs and lows. This preparation and support equips parents to provide long-term care and much needed stability for vulnerable children.
WE OFFER SUPPORT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
PARTNERSHIPS
We partner with local churches and build relationships to be able to recruit more foster families and inform people about the need that there is.
RELATIONSHIPS
We are well connected within the social development sector and able to provide suppot to families throughout their foster care journey.
PLACEMENTS
After assisting prospective parents in completing the due diligence and meeting the statutory requirements,
we help connect them to children in need.
Kin Community.
Community is the key to healthy families.
Kin Families are part of an even larger family – a beautiful, diverse community of homes, households, churches, experts, organisations and supporters. Because we really do believe in the power of family – not only to nurture and restore children, but also to support and strengthen parents and caregivers, and protect and prepare children in the existing family unit. Because this is family in its most beautiful, expansive and redemptive sense – where raising a child is truly a community effort. And ultimately, this picture of family is what the Church can offer the world,
We’re committed to supporting our families at every step of the journey, through every possible way. Our holistic approach includes training and advice, and providing a network of care experts and a caring community of other Kin Families, volunteers and spiritual supporters.
PARTNERSHIPS
We partner with local churches and build relationships to be able to recruit more foster families and inform people about the need that there is.
COMMUNITY
Our Kin Families join a really special community when they decide to foster – a supportive network of other foster families who are all on similar journeys. We host regular get-togethers and other events for our families.
MEETING BASIC NEEDS
We’ve partnered with Food Forward to assist families with basic food donations on a regular basis. In addition, we also have a clothing bank and selected prams and cots available to network families.
PRAYER
We have a host of prayer partners eager to intercede for each family – for needs both spiritual and physical.
VOLUNTEERS
The Kin Community spans even wider than our foster families and formal team. We’re privileged to have volunteers who are unable to foster, but keen to help.
EXPERT TEAM
We partner with an incredible team of knowledgeable experts, and each plays a crucial role in the holistic care of a vulnerable child:
Social workers offer statutory and emotional support.
Doctors and dentists conduct initial health assessments on the kids.
Psychology professionals offer mental health assessments, guidance regarding attachment issues and healthy bonding.
Lawyers offer information on the rights of a foster parent.
We are continually growing this support base and hope to provide ongoing medical and therapeutic services in the future.
Social Services – The Kin Social Care team provides information and guidance in the area of foster care. Our relationships with other child protection organisations mean we are able to advise and offer support on wide ranging issues to families in our network.
Training – Our pre- and post-placement training offering helps families navigate their foster care journey.
Screening – We offer an end-to-end screening service to ensure that our prospective families enjoy a positive start on their foster care journey.
Support – Our team assists in facilitating the placement of a child with a new family and will also do bi-annual check-ins with families.
SCREENING
We offer an end-to-end screening service to ensure that our prospective families enjoy a positive start on their foster care journey.
TRAINING
Our pre- and post-placement training offering helps families navigate their foster care journey.
SUPPORT
Our team assists in facilitating the placement of a child with a new family and will also do bi-annual check-ins with families.