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Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent: Foster/Adopt Frequently Asked Questions. Family Stories
- Parent’s Guide to Foster Care
The Foster Care Agency. While your child is in ACS care, a...
- Parent’s Guide to Foster Care
New York City needs foster parents who will care for children with high needs, sibling groups, teenagers, and young adults. We welcome and encourage foster parents from all backgrounds, marital statuses, race, faith, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
Today, The Foundling is one of New York City’s largest providers of foster care services. We utilize evidence-based interventions in our foster care programs that are proven to support happy, healthy, and functioning families.
JCCA is one of the largest and most respected foster care agencies in New York City, and was selected as one of five agencies to work with the City on the ChildSuccessNYC pilot program.
The Foster Care Agency. While your child is in ACS care, a foster care agency will oversee your case and refer you to services that can help with the issues that led to the placement of your child in foster care.
Our Family Foster Care program provides safe and nurturing care in the homes of trained foster parents to children who temporarily cannot be with their birth families. At a time when it is needed most, we provide the caring support a child needs and, most importantly, deserves.
Find a Foster Care Agency in New York. All foster parents in the New York must be licensed ( non relative foster care) or approved (kinship foster care) in order to provide care for children. The licensing process is slightly different for each county– and may even vary in different agencies. There are certain steps that almost everyone follows.