About us
Foster 180 believes in a community-centered approach to foster care. By fostering connections and support among families, we aim to create a nurturing environment that promotes healing and growth. Together, we can build a brighter future for children and families in need, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued. Join us in our mission to make a lasting impact in the lives of those we serve.
Our Story
Follow the link to the "Say Yes" podcast to hear the heart of Foster 180 co-founders Bill and Jenny Sanders
Our Team
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Kourtney Bolton
Kourtney Bolton serves as Program Director for Foster 180, where she focuses on strengthening the systems that support foster families and kinship caregivers. With a background in nursing and years of experience working with at-risk youth, Kourtney brings an informed, relational approach to program development, training, and community collaboration. She is passionate about helping families feel less isolated and more equipped, believing that sustainable support is essential for long-term stability and healing.
Samuel Bolton
Samuel Bolton serves as Event Coordinator for Foster 180, bringing extensive experience in volunteer leadership and community engagement. He previously served as Director of Volunteers for the Nashville Rescue Mission while earning his Master’s in Theology from Trevecca Nazarene University and completing his chaplaincy training with Vanderbilt University. Samuel is passionate about creating welcoming, well-organized spaces that foster connection, dignity, and meaningful community support.
Jenny Sanders
Jenny Sanders is a dedicated advocate for children, families, and TBRI awareness in Tennessee. She serves as the Wilson County Youth Service Officer and is a wife, mom, adoptive mom, and former foster parent whose lived experience deeply informs her work. As Founder of Foster 180, Jenny is a leader in advancing TBRI practice statewide. She helped develop TN-KEY, Tennessee’s official foster parent curriculum, equipping caregivers with practical tools rooted in connection, regulation, and resilience. Jenny is a TBRI Practitioner, Certified Parent Coach, and Instinctual Trauma Response Therapy Specialist, bridging relational, behavioral, and therapeutic approaches in her trainings.
Cohort, “Generations”
Our Generations Cohort is a collaborative initiative with FAM Essentials, and Just Serve. Rooted in community care, dignity, and practical support for elder caregivers, kinship families, and foster families, this cohort brings together local partners who share a commitment to serving intergenerational needs across Wilson County. As a team, we host regular events for this community at central locaitons like Jimmy Floyd, First United Methodist Church, and with the City of Lebanon at Don Fox Park. Check our events page for the next Generations event!"
Our Affiliates
Safe & Secure TN equips caregivers and professionals with research-based, trauma-informed training rooted in Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI). As an ambassador organization of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development, they work across Tennessee to strengthen the systems that support children who have experienced adversity, trauma, and loss.
Foster 180, a SSTN Champion Organization, had the privilege of partnering with the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development to train all of our Wilson County Student Resource Officers in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). Training these officers means there is a potential to engage every public schooled child in Wilson County through the lens of Trust Based Relational Intervention!!
Families Count partners with local churches to offer a 6-week, biblically-based class plus mentoring for parents who are working toward reunification, facing separation risks, or simply striving to build stable, safe family rhythms.
Through Foster 180’s connection with Families Count, we help bring this resource into our network—making sure that foster, birth, and kinship families aren’t just surviving, but being strengthened for the long-haul of generational change.
Every Child TN is a statewide initiative mobilizing Tennesseans to care for children, youth, and families before, during, and after foster care.
Their focus rests on four key priorities: Preservation — strengthening families so children may stay safe at home; Recruitment — growing a diverse pool of foster families; Retention — supporting those families to stay engaged long term; and Transition — helping youth aging out of foster care step into adulthood with more tools.
Through our partnership with Every Child TN, Foster 180 taps into the bigger movement—bringing local families into a state-wide embrace of community, resources, and hope.
WRAP —in full “Words of Encouragement, Respite, Acts of Service, Prayer” — equips faith communities across Tennessee to step in around foster and kinship families with hands-on support and heartfelt care.
Through Foster 180’s partnership with WRAP, we help mobilize volunteers and churches to turn individual compassion into consistent community care—so foster families aren’t doing this alone.
Become a James 1:27 Church.
“Religion that God accepts as pure and without fault is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help...” -NCV
There are nearly 400,000 foster children in the US, -the same number of churches. What if every church supported a foster child?
A James 1:27 Church answers the call to care for our vulnerable youth and their families with programs like WRAP and Families Count.
Feel the call? We can help you get started.