Utah Foster Care believes every child deserves a safe home with a loving family. By becoming a foster parent, you are also sharing your strength, your home, and your future—making a commitment to help, heal, and enrich the lives of abused and neglected children.

Utah Foster Care believes every child deserves a safe home with a loving family. By becoming a foster parent, you are also sharing your strength, your home, and your future—making a commitment to help, heal, and enrich the lives of children in care.

There are two ways to adopt children from foster care: foster-to-adopt and adopt a waiting child. Our team can talk through all the options!

Utah Foster Care is your starting point for fostering or adopting thru foster care in Utah. Begin today! It’s easy and we’re there every step of the way.

To ensure a safe and stable home for children in foster care, there are some basic qualifications that all families are required to meet: May be legally married couples or single individuals (aged 18 or older).

We’re Utah Foster Care, and we’re a private, non-profit organization that has a contract with the State of Utah. We find, train, and nurture foster families — we also train kinship and specific caregivers.

Foster families are part of an extended team of child welfare experts and other foster families dedicated to the care of abused and neglected children. Of course, it all starts here, with Utah Foster Care—we get you started with the process, offer state-mandated training, and provide on-going emotional and logistical supports.

Hispanic and Latino children are overrepresented in the Utah foster care population, with many facing unique challenges related to cultural identity, language, and family connections.

There are no guarantees, and the welfare of the child always takes priority, but this has been a successful path to adoption for countless Utah families. For families who would like to adopt without doing foster care, adopting a waiting child may be a better option.

In Utah, there are around 2,700 children in foster care at any given time and some 1,300 licensed foster/adoptive families. Children in foster care often have special needs due to neglect, abuse or separation. Substance abuse is a contributing factor in many foster care cases. In Utah, most children are in foster care for about 12 months; some ...