05/01/2026
National Foster Care Month
Engaging Youth. Building Supports. Strengthening Opportunities.
Across Georgia, we’ve spent time listening to youth, caregivers, and providers across the foster care system. What we’ve heard is consistent, and it challenges many of the assumptions we often make about why outcomes fall short.
The issue is not a lack of resources. For caregivers and practitioners who know where to look, there are many tools, programs, and supports available.
The real challenge is fragmentation.
Foster care operates as a disjointed ecosystem, sometimes an ecosystem of competing interests and structures that don’t align. Over and over again, this issue breaks the continuity of care, especially as youth bounce from one placement to another, county to county, school system to school system. As a result, so many resources that should support successful transitions to adulthood rarely reach youth in time to make a difference.
**This is not a problem we have to accept--there are solutions.**
There is a better way forward—one that focuses less on creating new programs and more on strengthening connection, coordination, and shared purpose across what already exists.
At The Enay Foundation, we are working to bring partners together across regions to strengthen those systems—while also providing direct support to youth and caregivers.
We believe real progress starts with
* engaging honest, solutions-focused conversations,
* promoting innovation that closes support gaps, and
* ensuring that young people themselves are actively shaping the systems designed to serve them.
Throughout May, we’ll be sharing:
* practical tools for caregivers
* insights from youth and the field
* and opportunities to connect through info huddles and conversations
If you are a caregiver, partner, or community member, we invite you to engage with us.
We don’t need to build another “thing.”
The path forward is collaboration—working together to better align the resources, relationships, and supports that already exist.
Let’s move forward—together. Sign up for one of our 30min resource huddles here:
enayfoundation.org/upcoming-events
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