Family Foster Care services are provided to young people, ages 6-17, referred by DFCS and not in need of a more structured or intensive program. These youth are typically stepping down from a therapeutic foster care home or an institutional placement. Youth may also be referred for family foster care as he or she enters into placement for the first time.
Family Foster Care provides individual treatment and support services in a family-oriented setting. The child in family foster care lives with a substitute family in the family’s own home. Clinical staff and the foster parent together work as a treatment team to provide a therapeutic environment designed to help the child achieve increased emotional stability and an improved level of behavioral functioning and social interaction. The foster parents are especially recruited, screened, and trained to provide an environment with sufficient structure and treatment services to help children achieve their individualized treatment goals.
• It is for children waiting on family reunification plans to activate once they have benefited from treatment.
• It is a last chance for a child in care to learn to participate and belong to a family prior to having their own.
• It is for children who have finished our treatment program at the Methodist Home successfully and are ready to move on and we can continue to support with our existing resources.
• It satisfies the desire of a child to belong to a family while succeeding at The Methodist Home.
• It means once in a group home, not always in a group home.
• It is for teens that are “too old” to belong to family just because adoptions have failed.
• It is for children whose lives remain on hold until the biological family receives support.
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