Tremper Family

The most rewarding aspect of fostering has been watching trust be built, slowly, and to see potential realized for the kids in our care.

We have learned so much about trauma and brokenness and also about trust and belonging. My eyes have been opened to the needs within my own community and it's compelled me to regularly advocate and raise awareness with others around me.

I believe the most important role of a foster parent is to be a soft and safe place for a child who is displaced and experiencing trauma. It's important that we are looking to meet the needs of the child and not focused on our own hopes and desires in the situation.

Fostering and adopting can be so rewarding and add joy and value to your family in unexpected ways, but adding children from hard places into your home can't be about you or what you may gain. The needs of the child must come first.

Our children include three biological kids and two kids adopted through foster care. We adopted our oldest child as a teen from foster care who makes us immensely proud by breaking generational cycles every day!

I think it's important for people to understand that there is always a need for good foster families, but that's not the only way to support kids in foster care. Not everyone is called to foster or adopt, but everyone is capable of doing something to support kids, families, or social workers so that the outcomes and experiences of kids in foster care are improved.

- Kevin and Lauren Tremper

Learn about becoming a foster parent

Speak to a foster care specialist at 1-888-2Foster