A decade ago, it was difficult to open the paper without hearing about a crisis in the foster care system. Children were not adequately tracked; some were even lost, disappearing into the system charged with their care.

A woman from a South Florida church could no longer read the daily headlines describing the abuse, neglect, and abandonment of children in our community and stay silent. She decided to be their voice. She knocked on any pastor’s door who would listen and educated herself on the foster care system, trusting God would open up people’s hearts and provide for the orphans in our community. A grassroots foster-care ministry, ChildSHARE, was started in South Florida from her vision. Over the years, the name changed to Project Teamwork 4KIDS, and finally, 4KIDS of South Florida, but the mission of “providing hope for kids in crisis” has always remained the same.

Seeing the need to draw in other churches and faith-based providers throughout the tri-county area, 4KIDS birthed Churches United for Foster Care in December 2002. This initiative now facilitates the involvement of more than one hundred organizations to care for the modern-day orphan in our community.

In 2005, 4KIDS welcomed His Caring Place, a maternity ministry with 20 years of service to young women experiencing crisis pregnancies, to our team.

Today 4KIDS has twelve residential sites that serve the needs of children and teens, provide support and training for foster-families, and has recently brought Adoption 4KIDS under our umbrella, serving the needs of birth mothers and adoptive parents.