One Step Can Change a Life – start your fostering journey today!

The most important qualities of a good foster parent are empathy, resilience, perseverance, and a deep commitment to providing a loving, caring home for a child. We want to guide you along your path of becoming a foster parent.
It means more than sharing a home. A foster family must make the child feel like part of their own family, with the same rights and responsibilities of any other family member. Providing a loving environment that is stable, safe and supportive can make all the difference in a child’s life and help facilitate a successful future for that child.
Foster parents provide stable, loving environments in which a child or young person can grow and develop. You can truly change a life of one of the thousands of children and young people who are in a situation where they cannot live with their biological parents.
Learn more about how you can become a foster parent in North Carolina.
North Carolina Foster Care Offices
Charlotte • Raleigh • Winterville
Serving state-wide