Foster care involves the temporary care of children who are not safe in their family's home due to abuse, neglect, or dependency. Families who are willing to share their homes with children who temporarily cannot live with their parents or relatives provide foster care.
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Foster Parents are people who: Care for children of all ages, races and religions from all geographic areas. Meet the basic day-to-day needs of the children and work with the family's social worker regarding family member visitations, special treatment needs of the child and the hopeful reunification of the child with the family. Are open to a child's past, willing to adjust their parenting to fit a child's needs, and are vital members of the treatment team. Enjoy the challenges and rewards that come from helping youth develop self-esteem and a healthy perspective on life. Share their hearts, their homes and their family experience.
The Need
Every day children come to the attention of CPS because of abuse and neglect concerns. These children range in age from birth to over eighteen, are primarily caucasian and are often part of a sibling group. Despite their challenges, these children need someone to provide a family setting offering safety and unconditional love and acceptance. Some children stay in foster care for a while until they return to their parents,relatives, or kin. Others will move toward adoption. All children need to know they are special and have their hopes and dreams nurtured to so they can grow into the very best they can be. Fairfield County is especially in need of foster and foster-to-adopt families for teens, siblings groups and children with physical, developmental or emotional challenges.
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Fairfield County Child Protective Services is a grantee of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption to implement its Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program. Through this grant, FCCPS will support an adoption professional who implements a proactive, child-focused recruitment model targeted exclusively on moving the longest-waiting children from foster care into adoptive families. Please contact Andrea Williams at 740.438.2297 for more information about this program. Additionally, please visit www.wendys.com/adoption to access more information, tools, videos and other adoption resources.
To get more information about becoming a foster or a foster-to-adopt parent, call Fairfield County Child Protective Services at 740.652.7887 and ask to speak to someone in the Foster Care and Adoption Unit.