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Foster CARE

Our team provides licensing, training, and support for Christian foster families across South Carolina.

BECOME A FOSTER PARENT

There is an overwhelming need for more people to step into foster care ministry in South Carolina, both by becoming foster parents and by helping those who are already fostering.  

 

In addition to licensing individual families, our team wants to equip your church to accomplish the mission that God has given all Christians – to care for vulnerable children in their greatest time of need. 

 

We are already working in the areas of:

Upstate: Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Newberry, Pickens, Spartanburg

Midlands: Aiken, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Richland, Saluda, Union, York

Low Country: Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Orangeburg

*Don’t see your area? Contact Paula Reed at preed@conniemaxwell.com

Foster Care Child

What is Required to Become a Foster Parent?

To become a foster parent, you must:

  • Be at least 21 years old.
  • Be financially stable enough to support an additional child in your home.
  • Have supportive character references.
  • Be in good physical and mental health (physician’s statement required).
  • Have lived in the community for at least six months.
  • Be emotionally and financially stable.
  • Satisfy background screening requirements.
  • Be willing to work with the child’s biological family.
  • Complete 14+ hours of pre-licensing training and an additional 15 hours of training annually.
  • We are currently licensing in the Midlands and Upstate Regions, as well as select counties in the Lowcountry.
  • To get started, contact us using the “get in touch” button below, or print, complete, and return the DSS application to one of our social workers.
START THE PROCESS

God has called every Christian to care for children in need. 

Some are called to open their homes.

With approximately 4,000 children in the South Carolina foster care system, there is an overwhelming need for licensed foster parents. This process depends on people like you who are willing to open their homes to these children in their time of need. Foster parents are not superheroes or “extra spiritual,” they are ordinary people who open their homes and hearts to serve others. 

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All are called to open their hearts.

Not everyone is called or equipped to become a foster parent, and that’s ok! But foster parenting is not the only way to help foster children – every foster family needs consistent and specific support in order to thrive. That’s why Connie Maxwell is dedicated to helping existing foster parents by partnering with your church to assist you in ministering to foster parents and children in your congregation. 

PARTNER WITH US

OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP

In addition to serving Christian families who want to become foster families, Connie Maxwell also seeks to connect willing volunteers to foster families and establish relationships with the local churches our foster families attend in order to provide a framework for volunteer services that can support and encourage families during their foster care journey.

Ways you can serve a foster family

  • Get your church involved in foster care ministry, even if there aren’t currently foster families in your congregation
  • Support a foster family through babysitting
  • Provide landscaping and/or lawn care to foster families
  • Provide meals for a foster family
  • Send notes of encouragement
  • Using your business to provide free or discounted goods or services to foster families

We are not all called to the same thing, but we are all capable of doing something. 

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FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT:

Paula Reed

Director of Foster Care

(864) 942-1493 or (864) 451-2822

preed@conniemaxwell.com

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Connie Maxwell
(Headquarters)
810 Maxwell Avenue
Greenwood, SC 29646
Toll Free: (800) 868-2624

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