What types of foster care are needed?
In Wisconsin, each county licenses its own foster homes and each county has different needs. Many counties routinely need homes for teenagers, but recently, some of the bigger counties have had a shortage of homes for infants and younger children. Any family who gets licensed has to follow the guidelines that the State of Wisconsin has for foster parents. There are no distinctions in licensing for the following homes, although your county might have its own policy. In general, the types of homes that are needed include: • General/regular foster homes—court ordered care for children that can last from a few days to several years. • Concurrent foster homes— a foster family that works on reuniting a child with his or her birth family, but is also open to the idea of adopting the child who is placed with them if the reunification efforts don’t work out. • Foster homes of color—there are a disporportionate number of children of color who are in residential care, rather than in foster care.
