Founded in 1976, Walden Family Services is a nationally-recognized foster care, adoption, and youth services agency. The Walden Family Services Foundation exists to conduct charitable fundraising for Walden Family Services, a nationally-recognized foster care, adoption and youth services agency with operations throughout Southern California. Funds raised through the foundation support Walden programs that prepare children to build lifelong relationships with foster and adoptive families, young people to exit foster care prepared for college and community life, and birth families to develop parenting skills to break the cycle of foster care.