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  • WHAT WE DO
    • OUR STAFF
    • Our Partners
    • Safety Resources
    • Video Library
  • Foster Care / Adopt
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • How to Be A Foster Parent
    • Foster Parent Support
    • Foster Parent Forms
  • Children’s Counseling Services
    • Supervised Visitation
    • Outpatient Therapy
    • Mentoring Services
    • Intensive Care Coordination (ICC)
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"Children have a great capacity for joy.  It doesn't take much to make them happy.  It's even easier to make them happy if you do something with them which can have the added benefit of making parents happy too, as the joy of children is infectious."
-- By Claire McCarthy, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing, 10/9/2020

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Foster Care

​​For Children’s Sake provides therapeutic foster care services to children ages 0 to 18. We average between 20 and 40 children in our care at any given time, and more than 50 children in our care every year. We have approximately 20 to 30 foster families with us at any given time.
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Community Services

We offer therapeutic services to help families stay intact whenever possible. These services include mentoring, supervised visitation, and outpatient psychotherapy for children and adults,.​​ We are a Medicaid-approved agency.
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Get Involved

FCS is always looking for donations, volunteers, and foster parents. Reach out today to learn more about what donations we are looking for, our volunteer needs, and the process to become a foster parent. Also, be sure to sign up for our newsletter and follow us on social media to stay updated!
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Children placed in
foster homes in 2020
​Foster families in 2020.
Returned to their
birth family in 2020.
Children adopted in 2020.

​How to Become a Foster Parent


Our agency’s goal is to give every child a home that will fit their unique needs. For this, we need a variety of parents. FCS works hard to count people in, not out, as foster parents! To learn more, call us today!

Orientation

STEP 1

You call us and we set up a meeting to discuss FCS, our policies, and how we best fit together to match your family’s fostering expectations.

Application

STEP 2

You’re given an application at the end of orientation. Once received, the staff will look over the application, call with any questions, and follow up with references.

Training

STEP 3

Parent’s Resource for Information, Development and Education (PRIDE) training program through FCS. This is a 27 hour training, with scheduling based on your needs.

Home Study​

STEP 4

Our staff will reach out to schedule your home study, where we come to your home at least three times to interview you, your family, and verify that your house is up to regulation.

Approval

STEP 5

Once you are officially approved, FCS staff will call you with an intake as children are in need of your help.
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Latest News​


FCS is proud of our agency’s wealth of resources and our supportive team and office culture!
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​Giving Tuesday

On November 29, 2022, we will celebrate Giving Tuesday, a global giving event that encourages people from around the world to support a non-profit organization of their choosing. Giving
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