Open Your Heart and Home

Just as children come from all walks of life, so do foster parents. You don’t have to be wealthy, live in a big house, or be married. You simply need room in your heart and in your home to give children a safe space to heal and build hope.

Foster Parents Play a Key Role

Foster parents provide a temporary home and quality care for children. Working with birth parents, they help prepare children for the day they can safely reunite with their families. When children cannot go home, they assist with the transition to placement with relatives, to an adoptive home, or entry into self-sufficient adulthood. Foster parents provide daily care and support aimed at promoting healthy physical and emotional growth, recovery from trauma, and hope while children are separated from their family.

It Helps to Have Respite Care

Respite care providers give foster parents planned time off for rest and renewal. These providers care for children for shorter periods of time. Their assistance is invaluable.

"Our purpose was to help others, help kids."

Kevin Chhantra and Lori Leuthiphonh,
Saint Francis Foster Parents

Foster Parent Rewards and Benefits

  • Positively influence a young person’s life
  • Keep children safe, within a family environment
  • Serve their community
  • Participate on a professional team
  • Enrich the quality of their own life through foster parenting
  • Feel the joy of providing healing and hope to a child in need

Our Foster Parents Receive Great Support

  • Free, professional one-on-one support provided by our caring staff
  • Respite/relief care
  • Tax-free compensation
  • 24/7 support services
  • Mileage reimbursement per state guidelines
  • Medical cards for foster children
  • Foster Care Child Care Assistance for employed foster parents
  • Ongoing training in person, online, or via relevant articles
  • Recruitment bonus for referring another family that fosters
  • Online resources and support through a secure website designed exclusively for our foster parents

Therapeutic Foster Care

Adolescence is a tough time under the best of circumstances. Some young people make poor decisions that can lead them toward criminal behavior or thinking. Our therapeutic foster care for youth ages 10 and older provides a family-based environment to help youth address any underlying problems which are negatively affecting the youth’s ability to transition successfully back into their family or community. While helping youth decrease their participation in inappropriate behaviors, we provide them with the tools and skills needed for productive community living.

Therapeutic Foster Care Parent Benefits

  • Weekly home visits and around-the-clock availability in case of emergency or if you just need to talk
  • Free initial and ongoing training to give you all the tools and skills you need to be an effective and knowledgeable foster parent
  • Review of youth’s case record prior to placement. You may have the opportunity to meet the young person. In all cases, you have the right to refuse placement
  • TFC parents are reimbursed a higher rate than standard foster care
  • Medical cards for youth
  • Regular newsletters with helpful articles
  • Online resources and support with easily accessible tools and training designed exclusively for our foster parents
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