Parenting with grace, truth, and intentionality.
Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents carry an important calling—and often face challenges that require wisdom, patience, and support. Raleigh’s Place partners with STEPS Ministries to provide practical, Christ-centered parenting resources designed to help families grow stronger one step at a time.
Strong families are built intentionally.
Parenting children who have experienced loss, transition, trauma, or instability can bring unique joys and challenges. Good intentions matter, but parents also need practical tools, trusted relationships, and Biblical encouragement.
These resources are designed to help parents become more prepared, aware, connected, and equipped as they lead their families.
Practical help for real family life.
Through our partnership with STEPS Ministries, foster families can access free parenting tools covering a range of common challenges and stages of family life.
Biblical Parenting
Learn a Scripture-based approach to discipling your children while balancing grace, truth, responsibility, and relationship.
Faith • Discipleship • ParentingParenting Teenagers
Learn practical ways to help teenagers navigate relationships, choices, pressure, emotional challenges, and growing independence.
Teens • Communication • GuidanceParenting in a Crisis
Find practical guidance for responding wisely when your child or family is facing difficult behaviors, emotional struggles, or a serious crisis.
Crisis • Prevention • SupportParenting Younger Children
Build strong foundations early through proactive parenting, healthy relationships, age-appropriate guidance, and intentional family rhythms.
Young Children • Foundations • ConnectionExplore the complete Raleigh’s Place resource library from STEPS Ministries.
The dedicated Raleigh’s Place portal includes parenting resources, videos, practical tools, and additional family-support material.
OPEN THE FREE RESOURCE LIBRARYParent proactively with PACES.
STEPS organizes its parenting approach around five practical ideas that help parents think intentionally about the health of their family.
Preparation
Become proactive and prepare to protect and guide your children.
Awareness
Understand what your children are experiencing and the challenges they face.
Connection
Strengthen the relationship and trust between you and your child.
Education
Equip your children with wisdom and skills for the situations they will face.
Steps
Put what you are learning into practice through thoughtful, intentional action.
Learn together. Encourage one another. Grow as parents.
Raleigh’s Place uses the Biblical Parenting material from STEPS Ministries as the foundation for our foster-parent small groups.
These gatherings are designed to be practical and relational—not another lecture. Parents have space to learn, ask questions, share experiences, encourage one another, and apply Biblical principles to everyday family life.
Our current group meets on the first and third Sunday afternoons and works through the material together over several sessions.
What to Expect
- Biblically grounded parenting discussion
- Practical tools you can use at home
- Conversation with other foster parents
- Encouragement and prayer
- Childcare provided
- Refreshments provided
Parenting is more than managing behavior.
Christian parenting is ultimately about faithfully loving, teaching, discipling, correcting, encouraging, and modeling Christ before the children God has placed in our care.
“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children.” Deuteronomy 6:6–7
About STEPS Ministries
STEPS Ministries creates practical resources designed to help individuals and families strengthen relationships, develop healthy habits, grow spiritually, and address problems before they become crises.
Their parenting material combines Biblical principles with practical, research-informed tools that families can apply in everyday life.
LEARN MORE ABOUT STEPSFree to Raleigh’s Place Families
The Raleigh’s Place resource portal gives families direct access to STEPS parenting material at no cost.
VISIT THE RALEIGH’S PLACE PORTALBiblical Parenting is one part of Partner Homes.
Raleigh’s Place surrounds foster, adoptive, and kinship families with practical support, community, encouragement, food assistance, clothing and essentials, parent gatherings, and other resources designed to help families remain strong.
EXPLORE PARTNER HOMESStrong families help children thrive.
Find practical tools, Biblical encouragement, and a community ready to walk alongside your family.