What is the Foster Family Program?
Family foster care is a program designed to provide a substitute family life experience. The purpose is to provide a health home and community experience for the child while the conditions which caused the placement away from he birth/legal family are being resolved. Foster care is intended to be temporary. Children are placed in foster homes because they have been removed from their own families due to abuse, neglect, or other family problems that endanger their safety. The children may range from infancy through 18 years of age, and may have special medical, physical, or emotional needs. The children may belong to any ethnicity or race and be a part of a group of brothers and sisters who need to be placed together.
