When you make a gift to Amara, you do more than help us meet the needs of children and families in our community. Your investment contributes to positive long-term outcomes that are needed to transform the child welfare system! You don’t need to wait to make your Giving Tuesday gift. Make your gift today to support children and families and take advantage of our match! All gifts will be matched 1:1, doubling your impact! https://lnkd.in/gQXe9B74 #fostercare #childwelfare #kinshipcare #youthdevelopment
Amara
个人和家庭福利保障
Seattle，WA 1,660 位关注者
We support children in foster care, adoptees, and their families throughout Western Washington.
关于我们
Amara is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children and families. We drive systemic change, promote healing, racial and LGBTQIA+ equity, by offering programs and services to families engaged in foster care, and to adoptees and families, post-adoption. Foster Care Services: We guide, prepare, and support foster families to ensure that every kid in foster care can be placed in a stable, loving home. Post Adoption Services: Our Post-Adoption services support Amara adoptees and their families through community-building, mentorship, education, and more. Amara welcomes youth, adults, and families into our program regardless of marital status, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, home ownership, income, or education.
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https://www.amarafamily.org
Amara的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 个人和家庭福利保障
- 规模
- 51-200 人
- 总部
- Seattle，WA
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 1921
- 领域
- Foster Care、Adoption、Family Services、children、Families、kinship care和youth development
地点
Amara员工
动态
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Sharing from our fabulous new CEO...
Foster Care Facts: Did you know that black, indigenous and youth of color are over represented in the foster care system? Black children specifically are 2x’s and Native American youth are 3x’s as likely to be impacted by the child welfare system compared to white children? Did you know that Amara aims to close this gap? As we enter into a season that will make it harder to implement the DEI lens in our work, it must not stop our mission to ensure families get the support to not loose their child or youth to the child welfare system, and if they do, we want to ensure we have foster families at the ready to be that support, until youth can safely return to their family. If that is not an option, we have resource to support from there. This is my lived experience, while kinship was not and option for myself and my sister, we were placed in the home of a foster parent who made sure we grew up together. I don’t know who is reading this and needs to know, if you are a grand-parent, auntie or uncle that has found yourself in a situation that is depending on you to take in a kin, Amara can help you with that even if you are not licensed. Additionally, if you are a family that would like to foster to support a child or young person in their journey, I don’t care what race, we can help you navigate that as well, and get licensed. Reach to us! Amarafamily.org ??.
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Amara’s Family Support Services provide free peer support and resource navigation for families in Pierce County. Our mission is to promote the safety and well-being of children and families through trusting and collaborative partnerships between parents/caregivers and peer navigators/certified peer counselors to provide strengths-based, affirming and culturally responsive support. The program is open to parents/caregivers of children ages 0-18 in Pierce County. For more information or to get started, please email [email protected]. #familywellbeing #piercecounty
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Are you familiar with Amara's Family Connections Program? We help all the important adults around a child who is in the foster care system bridge the gap between them to best support the child. Our parent and caregiver mentors help everyone involved take the first steps toward partnership. When kids see all the adults in their lives partnering, they experience less stress, and the adults have less stress too! https://lnkd.in/g2Q8ezdb #childwelfare #fostercare #kinshipcare
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One of the most important things foster and kinship caregivers of teens can do is to provide them with as much choice and control over their lives as possible. This can look like letting them decide what and when to eat, how to set up and decorate (or not decorate) their rooms, making sure they can still hang out with their friends, and letting them decide when to do their homework, and where. One former teen in foster care recalls being excited to just be able to choose where to do her homework, even if it meant sprawling all over the giant, chocolate brown sectional sofa in her foster family’s living room. Read the whole story on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gUs9YxfB #fosteryouth #fostercare #kinshipcare #caringforteens
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Are you a King County government employee or an active or retired Washington State public employee (this includes all state employees, including University of Washington employees)? Making a gift through your workplace giving campaign is a meaningful and simple way to support children and families on their journey toward greater resiliency and healing. For the KCEGP campaign (https://lnkd.in/g_e8tw9M) Amara’s code is 9309. For the CFD campaign (https://give.wa.gov/search) Amara’s code is 0456683. ? ? For more information on how to get involved, email [email protected]. ? ? #employeegiving #fostercare #kinshipcare #YouthDevelopment?
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Thank you to everyone who made our Through the Foster Lens event so wonderful! The Titlow Lodge was filled with warmth, caring, and so many connections: connection with one another, connection with Amara’s new CEO Fahren Johnson, and connection to our work with children and families. The photos shared by people with lived experience in foster care allowed us to reflect on the emotions behind each one, so we could understand the life-long impact foster care has on everyone connected to each foster care story. Every heartfelt photo was moving in its own unique way. Thank you to all who so graciously shared their photos. We were honored to host Through the Foster Lens and share these photos with our community of supporters. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gMHgDxPt #familywellbeing #buildingcommunity
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Join us at Amara! Together, we can create a more equitable and inclusive society—starting within our organization. We strongly encourage candidates who have personal experience with foster care and/or adoption as well as candidates from diverse backgrounds – including communities of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, and people with disabilities – to apply. https://lnkd.in/g3xUe5Ea #hiring #seattle #tacoma #childwelfare #familywellbeing
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Join us next Thursday for an inspiring evening at our second annual traveling photo exhibit, Through the Foster Lens, Oct. 3 from 5 – 7 pm at Titlow Lodge in Tacoma. The moving exhibit features photos taken by people with lived experience in child welfare sharing their experiences, memories, and hopes. The evening will also serve as a fundraiser for our work with children and families. Please RSVP: https://lnkd.in/dGKhYS4w #tacoma #fostercare #kinshipcare #photography
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Fahren wrapped up her first day as our new CEO yesterday with this great video message for our Amara community. "We're better together." #NewBeginnings