Foster The Future
The mural is located at the Fairfield County Records Center, 138 W. Chestnut Street, Lancaster.
Fostering
Ordinary people making an extraordinary difference
Foster care is the temporary care provided to children in the custody of Protective Services, lasting from overnight to over a year. Foster parents provide safety, stability, and a nurturing, loving family environment for vulnerable children while working with the child's birth family to encourage successful reunification. They learn trauma-informed parenting to meet each child's needs for healing while building resiliency and healthy self-esteem.
Local Foster & Adoption Stories
Learn more about foster and adoption
Fairfield County Job & Family Services can help you start the journey to becoming a foster or adoptive parent.
Inspired by Fairfield County Job and Family Services foster program families and children, Fairfield County is sharing a hopeful message to "Foster the Future." The mural depicts scenes in a young person's life that are milestones or family moments that can be life-defining — moments a child may not experience without a foster home or adoption. The scenes are as simple as a family dinner and learning to ride a bike, and as momentous as graduation. We hope the mural inspires potential foster parents and sheds light on what fostering can mean for young people. They are, after all, the future.
The Process
Portraying the fullness of family through day-to-day and life-defining moments.
The mural was designed and illustrated by Jonathan "Remo" Remoquillo of Remo Remo Design, using real foster stories as inspiration. The 1,600 sq. ft. mural was painted by a small team — including Remoquillo and his wife, Spencer, and volunteers Marilyn Steiner, Pam Patula, and Julie Goss — over the course of two months in the summer of 2021.
