JACKSON, Wyo. — On March 13, community members will be able to engage with the Teton County foster care team to learn about community needs and ask questions about how to support local foster care.
Foster care in Teton County has recently struggled to fill gaps in the system and provide support for foster children and families. The Foster Love event will look at Teton County statistics compared to state and national numbers, myth-bust assumptions about foster care, provide a Q&A panel with foster parents and a therapist from Teton Youth & Family Services and discuss the number of ways that people can help with community involvement.
A person does not have to be a foster parent to provide assistance and support to foster children, although foster parents are in high demand in Teton County. There is a vast number of ways that people in Jackson Hole can contribute to the need by providing food deliveries, donating goods or providing discounts for foster children on things like haircuts.
“Everyone is going to take away something that they can do to help,” Kelsi Rammell, foster care coordinator at the Department of Family Services, says of the open event. “My hope is people are going to leave there feeling very inspired and knowing they can make a difference by helping out.”
The event will be on March 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Hansen Hall in the St John’s Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyo.
For more information on the event or on foster care in Teton County, contact kelsi.rammell@wyo.gov.
