Community Friends can serve in many ways!

1

Support for Host Families

Community Friends are key to making sure that Host Families feel supported as they serve and don't burn out. Some ways that Community Friends can do this:

• help transport children
• provide babysitting in the Host Family's home or in the community (parks, Chick-fil-a, etc)
• tutor a child in the host home
• provide meals
• run errands for the host family
• Invite the host family over for play dates, a cook out, a meal in your home, etc.

IMPORTANT! If you want to provide babysitting or overnight respite care in your own home you must be approved as a Host Family, not a Community Friend.

2

Befriend & Support Parents

Community Friends can support and befriend parents in need:

• When their child is being hosted
• Befriending a parent whose child is not being hosted who simply needs supportive people in their life.

Some examples of how Community Friends do this:

• Provide rides to the store, doctor's appointments, etc.
• Go with a parent to a stressful meeting or appointment
• Babysit in the parent's home to give them a break or a mommy's day out
• Meet a parent for coffee
• Find a family-friendly event in your community and invite the family to go along with your family
• Take a meal to a parent's home and share it with them
• Be a listening ear-- simply be a friend!
• Pray with and for the parent
• Send encouraging texts and funny memes
• Meet with a parent to help them brush up their resume or to search through job postings
• Help a parent learn to drive
• Attend a budgeting class with a parent
• ... So many ways not listed!