Refugees Northwest Foster Care / Lutheran Community Services Northwest

Description

Since 1980, Refugees Northwest Foster Care (a program of Lutheran Community Services Northwest) has served children, primarily teenagers, from all over the world through our unaccompanied minor foster care program (known today as Refugees Northwest Foster Care). These children have come to the United States without families as 'unaccompanied minor’ refugees or asylum seekers. They have left behind war, persecution or instability that separated them from their families.

The United States is the only country with a specialized program that provides homes and services to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant minors. Here in Seattle we are one of the longest-running such programs and our decades of experience and expertise are reflected in the quality of services we provide.

The program continues to support dozens of children and their foster families each year. The need has never been greater. In recent years we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of refugee and immigrant children in need of families to call their own.