What is therapeutic foster care? What age children do you typically place?
Unlike traditional foster care which cares for children who might be orphaned or abandoned, therapeutic foster care involves youth who have been severely abused and neglected by their biological families, and have been removed. Because of the issues these children have as a result of their treatment in their biological homes, therapeutic level foster care must provide intensive services and supports to help them regain stability and construct positive futures for themselves. Lifeway typically works with youth between the ages of 10 – 18. We do occasionally have younger children, but for younger children to be placed in therapeutic level care, they must have dramatically severe needs. We do place parenting teens and their babies through our agency.
