Search results
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.
Foster Home Services. In New York City, nearly 9,000 children are in foster care. They have been removed from their homes because their caretakers are accused of abuse or neglect, or their inability to care for the children for whom they are responsible.
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.
Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent: Foster/Adopt Frequently Asked Questions. Family Stories
We utilize evidence-based interventions in our foster care programs that are proven to support happy, healthy, and functioning families. Children may enter foster care for a variety of reasons, including abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
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.
CASA-NYC advocates for children and youth in New York City foster care and those at high risk of foster care placement. Our mission is to ensure that young people involved in the NYC child welfare system have their needs met and rights protected, and that children in foster care are moved quickly into safe, stable, nurturing and permanent homes
