We Are Angels' Arms

After serving as a foster parent herself for several years, frequently receiving calls to care for sibling groups, Bess Wilfong learned that fostering is an extremely difficult calling and that foster parents and children can benefit tremendously through community involvement.
Foster children deserve the chance to be children, to be part of a family, and to live up to their potential. To achieve this, Angels’ Arms provides homes, resources and emotional support to experienced foster parents so that they can raise the standard of care for foster children. We involve the community by giving them opportunities to engage in these children’s lives and to support the foster parents.
Angels' Arms has served more than 500 children over the past 15 years, including 129 sibling groups and currently has 13 foster homes in the St. Louis region.
Multiple children and sibling groups have been adopted while living in an Angels’ Arms home.
100% of Angels' Arms children have graduated from high school, compared to a 50% rate for foster kids statewide.
Our Life Launch program works one-on-one with youth from 14-21+ to assist them with life skills, career exploration and mentoring, in addition to providing a transitional living space to foster youth who are aging out of the system, preparing them for independence.
Angels’ Arms receives no state or federal funding and is supported 100% by the community.
For more info, visit www.angelsarms.org

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Amazing organization!