You can make a difference in the life of a child.

Child and Family Services Foster Care Program helps parents and other caregivers develop skills to raise children in safe and loving homes. When this is not possible, our foster parents help preserve families by providing temporary homes for children until they can be reunited with their families.

Learn about becoming a foster parent.
 
Complete the form below or call us at (716) 882-0555

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You can provide a child with a safe, loving home.

Child and Family Services is always looking for emergency foster homes to help care for children needing a safe place to live.

By ensuring children have safe homes, we preserve families.

Foster parents are at the heart of any successful reunification. They partner with the child’s parents and assist the child in growing and healing by providing stability, consistency and love.

  • Foster care is temporary.
  • The reunification of a child with their biological family is the goal of our foster care program.

You can help by supporting children with different needs.

Special foster parents provide therapeutic foster care to children with more significant emotional, medical and behavioral needs.

Adopting a child can change their life—and yours.

It would take less than 1% of the American population to give a home to every child in the US waiting for adoption.

When children cannot return to live safely with their families, Child and Family Services matches children with loving, committed families who will provide permanency through adoption.

  • Children waiting for forever families are usually school-aged or part of a sibling group that should be adopted together.
  • Some children waiting to be adopted have behavioral, physical or learning challenges.
  • Every child waiting to be adopted wants to be part of a family.

Are foster care or adoption for you?

  • Child and Family Services are available to speak with you today.
  • Have a conservation with us or attend a general information meeting.
  • Becoming a foster or adoptive parent can make a difference in a child’s life.
  • Child and Family Services embraces families of all races, religions, sizes, genders, creeds, national origins, sexual orientations or economic statuses.

To report child abuse, call (800) 342-3720.

Make a difference in the life of a child.