These children come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds including African American, Hispanic, Caucasian and multi-racial backgrounds. One of our experienced adoption workers can discuss all aspects of adopting from foster care with you at a confidential one on one personal orientation, scheduled in one of our offices at your convenience. 

Our programs are designed to enable adoptive parents to explore and consider many options in planning for adoption. There are never any agency fees for adopting children from foster care.

For a detailed look at adoption requirements and the adoptive placement process, please view our extensive Topics on Adoption.

Program Goals:

Our Adoption program provides high levels of support services to our families and children. Our treatment program is designed to treat both children and families to promote integration of the child into the family system through reciprocal attachment.

• To move children into their permanent adoptive homes as soon as a permanency plan for adoption has been made.

• To provide ongoing supervision of these families to help establish an atmosphere in which children can thrive.

• To facilitate with ongoing therapeutic treatment services for children and their families through family and individual therapy, support, training, and consultation.

• To promote reciprocal bonding between child and family.

• To provide behavior management information to assist the family in dealing with periods of attachment and/or adjustment issues.

Foster Care Agency Services:

The call for committed, caring foster families is great in communities across California. Foster families are a part of our professional foster care team, fully supported by our staff in a close working relationship, providing foster children with the education, stability, skills and support they need to succeed in the world as adults. Our social workers recognize and respond to the individual needs of each child and support each family with additional mental health, educational, recreational and treatment resources. All of our foster parents are certified by Families For Children to provide foster care and accept children placed through our agency.

We refer to our foster families as "professional parents", these families care for abused and neglected children who can be best helped in a family setting, augmented by professional services. To assist new Foster Families in beginning the process, we reimburse Fingerprinting Fees and CPR/First Aid training costs. We offer one on one personal interviews to prospective foster parents at their convenience.

• Monthly reimbursements.

• Weekly or bi-weekly in-home support visits

• In home support & parenting skills training

• Coordination and supervision of birth parent's visits and interactions

• Coordination of medical, psychological and educational needs and referrals

• 24 hour crisis availability

• Quarterly children's evaluation reviews

• Individual orientations with prospective foster parents.

• 12 hours Pre-certification educational classes

• In-depth homestudies

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What is a Resource Family Agency and RFA?

While many are familiar with the terms Foster Care and Adoption Agency, Resource Family Agency may be a new and unfamiliar term. Introduced in 2017 by the State of California, the Resource Family Approval Program (RFA) is a new family-friendly and child-centered caregiver approval process that combines elements of the current Foster Parent licensing, and approvals for Adoptive families. RFA regulations effectively combine and replaces both these processes. A Resource Family Agency is licensed by the State of California to perform these services.

Resource Family Approval Program (RFA):

• Is streamlined and eliminates the duplication of existing processes.

• Unifies approval standards for all caregivers, regardless of the child's case plan.

• Includes a comprehensive psychosocial assessment, home environment check, and training for all families, including relatives.

• Prepares families to better meet the needs of vulnerable children in the foster care system.

• Allows seamless transition to permanency (adoption).

• Purpose is to place children, youth and young adults with families that can provide a lifelong connection by determining permanency approval upfront.

• Is a streamlined process that includes one application, one background check and a combined home environment and permanency assessment.