FAMILY FELLOWSHIP
About the Fellowship
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The process to adopt and/or foster a vulnerable child can be arduous and frustrating. Tightened state budgets and a deliberately-slow bureaucracy put many families in a devastating bind; many give up before they are allowed to welcome children into their home.
YATOM knows and understands these frustrations. That is why we created the YATOM Family Fellowship, a program which is meant to inspire hope for families striving to foster/adopt. Since 2016, we have been providing support through education, creating community and financial support. |
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Should you apply?
1) Do you identify as Jewish?
2) Do you have an interest in adopting and/or fostering a child/children?
3) Are you not yet started on the adoption/fostering path?
* Applicants must be in the early stages of exploring adoption/fostering. Those already in the licensure process will not be considered for this program. Consider our Microgrant Program if you have already welcomed foster/adoptive children into your family.
1) Do you identify as Jewish?
2) Do you have an interest in adopting and/or fostering a child/children?
3) Are you not yet started on the adoption/fostering path?
* Applicants must be in the early stages of exploring adoption/fostering. Those already in the licensure process will not be considered for this program. Consider our Microgrant Program if you have already welcomed foster/adoptive children into your family.
“YATOM is a loving organization that is at the forefront of support for adoptive and foster families. So often in an unconventional family journey we feel alone, even lost, with uncertainty and second guessing; its incredible that the Jewish community has YATOM to stand with our families as we traverse these tumultuous waters. They helped our family and I know they’d do it again if needed”
- Rabbi Chaim Bruk, Chabad-Lubavitch of Montana
- Rabbi Chaim Bruk, Chabad-Lubavitch of Montana
To qualify for the YATOM Family Fellowship stipend, certain criteria must be met. Participants must demonstrate active participation based on stipulated criteria, provide documentation that they have been licensed by their state to foster and/or adopt by the end of the fellowship, submit an article that has been published by a Jewish news outlet, submit documentation they have hosted a community discussion regarding their experiences through the process and the fellowship, and submit a video, no more than 90 seconds in length, describing their experiences through the process and the fellowship.
Already have an adopted or foster child? We still want you to be involved!
In partnership with Valley Beit Midrash
This project is funded by a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
