Donate Foster Care Packages
Foster care placements can happen any time—day or night—without much warning. Foster parents don’t have much time to gather the essential supplies a child will need. Help us with foster care packages to make a new child comfortable in their home. Learn more.
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Befriend-A-Child Rolls into Skate N’ Fun Zone
The BeFriend-A-Child Mentoring Program rolled out another fantastic skating event! Mentors and mentees hit the rink together, strengthening connections through laughter and support while trying something new.
Learn more about this outing. Apply online to join our next new mentor training on Saturday, July 11.
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Volunteer & Partner Services: A Year of Community Impact
Every hour volunteered, every class taught, every basket, backpack, and move provided supports the resilience of children and families in Fairfax County. Volunteer and Partner Services’ FY 2025 Volunteer Impact Report provides an overview of the lives you’ve helped touch along with anecdotes to help you see the personal impact of your contributions. Check it out.
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Supporting Foster Care Changes Lives!
During National Foster Care Month each May, Fairfax County recognizes the role of foster care in providing children with safe, caring, temporary homes. Behind every statistic about foster care is a family, a story, and a network of people who care. In Fairfax County, children spend time in foster care with relatives, foster families, and sometimes in group settings when a family‑based option isn’t yet available. Many are working toward reunification with their families or moving to live with kin.
Our community plays a quiet but important role in that journey, from fostering, to kinship care, to volunteering, to simply sharing accurate information. If you’d like to understand what foster care looks like here and how you might fit in, start with our annual foster care data: Could fostering or supporting those who foster be right for you?
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*Save The Date* Backpack & School Supply Drive: July 1 – August 7
Volunteer and Partner Services is excited to once again partner with Roonga, this time for our annual School Supply and Backpack Drive! From July 1 through August 7, 2026, you are invited to Adopt-A-Student and help them start the school year prepared and confident. Learn more.
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Child Abuse Prevention Month Proclamation and Pinwheels
Thank you to all the county and community partners for a wonderful awareness-raising month of April! Countless partners spread the word by planting pinwheel gardens, symbolizing a safe and healthy childhood, across Fairfax County. See more in our newsletter online.
At the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors' proclamation of April as Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month, The Department of Family Services was joined by partners including Bikers Against Child Abuse, Fairfax County Police, Public Schools, and Fairfax CASA. Check out the proclamation video as Rondell Patterson shares her testimony to the transformative power of services and supports offered by the Department of Family Services’ Parenting Education, Neighborhood Networks, BeFriend-A-Child, and Adopt-A-Family Holiday programs. Volunteers, partners and sponsors, YOU make it possible for us to transform lives all year round. Thank you!
Join Us: Volunteer with DFS
We need dedicated volunteer classroom facilitators and mentors. Apply today with Body Safety to help empower children and prevent or interrupt abuse. Volunteer with the Parenting Education and BeFriend-a-Child programs to help encourage children and build stronger families.
The Volunteer Post Newsletter is part of the Department of Family Services' Volunteer & Partner Services Program (VPS) - which works with volunteers, partners, sponsors and donors to help make a positive difference in the lives of children and families in our community.
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