The Stand Up Foundation

Let Love Open The Door

The Four Pillars

of the Stand Up Foundation

The Stand Up Foundation seeks to mobilize the body of Christ to creatively serve children in foster care and those who look after them.

If you are a foster or relative placement and you want to know if you qualify for one of our financial grants, please contact DCS Case Manager association with the placement or your private licensing agency and have them reach out by email to thestandupfoundation@gmail.com

We would be honored to help you!

Advocacy

We provide presentations for churches and civic groups for purposes of foster parent recruitment. We develop opportunities for the community at large to join foster families in their challenging but rewarding work through wraparound care initiatives.

Financial Grants

Our goal is to make foster care financially feasible by providing grants to qualifying foster/relative families. Foster parents don’t begin receiving a per diem until a while after the child is placed, but there are many purchases to make once a family accepts a foster placement in order for a child to feel more at home. Cribs/beds, clothing, toys, books, and the like. We want to eliminate financial barriers so that these precious children can have everything they need. They deserve the very best! Our organization has given out over 100K since 2013 to support children in foster care at the grassroots level, giving Resource Families the funding they need to make children feel more comfortable and enjoy more of their childhood while in foster care.

Support

We offer consistent encouragement and emotional support to foster families, DCS employees, foster care support groups, and children in foster care as well as teaching strategies to churches and groups to meet the needs of Resource Families!

Training

We provide unique opportunities for great on-going training regarding important topics that affect foster families. Topics include The Five Love Languages of Children in Foster Care, Financial Literacy for Foster Parents, and Keeping Your Marriage Strong in Foster Care. We have also partnered multiple times with Empowered to Connect to provide Trust Based Relational Intervention Training, which we believe to be the best, most-intensive and trauma-responsive curriculum available. If you need training for your group, contact us!

Hope Closet - A Foster Care Resource

Our newest project to expand our care and support of foster and resource homes is Hope Closet, located in Monroe City, Indiana. Hope Closet holds clothing, shoes, toys, and books for children of every age. Please use this form to set up a time to shop! There are no income requirements - -only a letter of placement. It’s our honor to walk along with you as you serve children in foster care.

Testimonial

The Stand Up Foundation came to a community that it needed it most, but it didn’t just cater to one county. Support went to surrounding counties who also needed help. From my personal experience, I have found the Stand Up Foundation to be a very unique organization that not only serves and supports foster youth but also has the ability to rally behind and strengthen foster parents. Asking for help can be hard but this Foundation makes easier. Stand Up has helped various foster families over the last couple of years by helping provide everything from beds, to sensory tools, to a lawnmower for a family that had made a lot of the purchases on other things. While Stand Up may not have purchased all these things, they also excel at reaching into the larger community to utilize those connections to help provide for families in need. The foundation as a whole is easy to work with, compassionate about helping, and organized and knowledgeable in the ways they can assist others. It has been a true joy to work with the individuals at The Stand Up Foundation.

-Laurent K., DCS Employee