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Child and Family Services is always looking for emergency foster homes to help care for children who are in immediate need of a safe place to live. Although the placement is temporary, the impact is permanent.
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Foster Care
Child and Family Services Foster Care Program works to preserve families by finding temporary homes for children while we work towards permanency. We help birth and foster parents develop skills to nurture children in safe, loving home environments. The goal of our foster care program is the reunification of a child with their biological family.
At the heart of any successful reunification is the foster parent. Foster parents assist the child in growing and healing by providing stability, consistency and love. Therapeutic foster care is offered to those children with more significant emotional, medical and behavioral needs.
Adoption
Did you know it would take less than 1% of the American population to give every child waiting for adoption in the United States a home?
When children cannot return to live safely with their own families, Child and Family Services Adoption Program matches children with loving, committed families who will provide permanency through adoption. Although many children who can’t be reunified with their families are adopted by their foster parents, many children in our community do not have a family to adopt them.
Children waiting to be matched with their forever families are usually school aged and may be part of a sibling group that should be adopted together. Some may have behavioral, physical, or learning challenges. What each and every one of these children have in common is their desire to be part of a family they can call their own.
Are you able to share your heart and home with a child in need? If so, you can make a difference in a life of a child! Please consider becoming a foster or adoptive parent with Child and Family Services.
A general information meeting regarding Foster Care and Adoption is held each month. Please email homefinding@cfsbny.org or call (716) 882-0555 to learn more.