Client Story

Welborn Baptist Foundation’s mission is to cultivate communities that flourish. They have four focus areas, including Early Learning, Healthy-Eating and Active Living, Christ-Centered Communities, and Nonprofit Excellence.

In recent years, Welborn Baptist Foundation has granted over $500,000 to foster care projects, and funding requests for foster care have increased. As they were funding various foster care projects, they realized they did not understand the landscape of foster care in the area. How were their dollars impacting foster care?

Welborn Baptist Foundation asked TCG to research foster care in Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties, and develop a whitepaper. Welborn wanted to understand who the local, regional, and state partners were for foster care and wanted their input throughout the project. Through TCG’s collaborative approach, we worked with Welborn to form a steering committee that guided the research and development for the white paper.

TCG deployed the three surveys for Foster Care Placement Services, Community Partners, and Foster and Kinship Care Parents. TCG also completed one interview with a woman who grew up in foster care in the area. TCG collected public data about foster care. Throughout the process, we were driven by the following guiding questions:   

• What is foster care? 
• How does foster care impact the community? 
• Who are the children in the Southwest Indiana counties?
• How is the community meeting the needs of children in foster care? 
• How are other communities addressing foster care needs? 
• What improvements can be made in the foster care system?