The primary way we support and care for foster families is through the formation of Wrap Around teams that meet the tangible needs of each of our foster families. Wrap teams usually consist of 10-12 adults who each commit to consistently providing a specific form of support to a specific family.

Wrap Team members meet tangible needs of the family to gift the foster parents with more time to care for the kids.

When a child enters a family through the foster care system, that child brings with them complicated behaviors and emotions resulting from the trauma of being removed from their home and being placed with an unfamiliar family.  The burden on families to appropriately care for these kids can be daunting.  There are extra medical appointments, therapy appointments, court appearances, meetings with DCS, birth family visitations and a myriad of other demands on top of regular parenting responsibilities.

You can wrap around a family in the following ways:

• Provide laundry support each week
• Volunteer to pick up and deliver groceries (preordered and paid for by foster family) or run errands (usually once a week).
• Join a meal team of 4 people who take turns providing a meal for the family once a week. (Each person on the team provides a meal a month).
• Provide relief care which consists of watching all the children in the household one night a month to allow the foster parents to have a “date night”. Relief care teams always consist of 2 volunteers every time you watch the children. You will be teamed with a Relief Care partner
• Additional Wrap Team services which are provided by volunteers from time to time include doing Costco shopping for a family or performing lawn maintenance.

All potential volunteers will need to attend a brief training session, fill out a volunteer application, provide personal/professional references and will need to pass a background check and have an interview with a COTC ministry leader.

While there is no specific length of time a volunteer needs to commit to, this is a relational ministry, and the hope is that each volunteer would feel a longer term commitment to serve their family.

Yes!  Volunteers from any COTC campus are needed to donate to or serve at the COTC Spring Hill Wrap Around Closet The Wrap Around Closet accepts new and gently used clothing, toys, furniture, personal care items and more. This resource is available for foster families that need extra items to care properly for their children. Volunteers would help with sorting donations and inventory management and would serve weekly.