Foster Care Licensing Agencies
Foster Care Licensing Agencies
Here’s a list of all the agencies in Arizona that you could work with. Please note that not all agencies are contracted to work in every county, so it’s important to select the county in which you live.
Catholic Charities Community Services
Catholic Charities Community Services provide life-changing services that protect and nurture children, help strengthen families and assist individuals in crisis.
Counties: Apache, Coconino, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai
Great for:Military Families, Single Parents, Spanish Speaking Families, Married Couples (1 year plus), *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 943-3843
HRT Foster Care
HRT provides all levels of foster care: Regular, Kinship, Respite, Medically Complex, Therapeutic, and DDD Child Developmental Homes. We are a family of families; big enough to meet the needs of our providers but small enough to know our families individually. We build families and strengthen the lives of children.
Counties: Apache, Coconino, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 433-1344
Grace Retreat Foster Care
Grace Retreat is committed to support families through the process of becoming licensed and providing a home for children that makes them feel valued, loved and safe.
Counties: Cochise, Pima, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(520) 276-9661
GAP Ministries
Gap Ministries is an agency comprised of dedicated team members that would love to help guide you and your family, both physically and spiritually, through the journey of becoming a licensed foster and/or adoptive parent. Let GAP Ministries show you the dedication and commitment we have to helping your family succeed in care for these vulnerable children.
Counties: Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz
Great for:Military Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, Married Couples
Phone Number:(520) 392-8469
Child Crisis Arizona (Crisis Nursery)
Child Crisis Arizona provides emergency shelter, foster care, adoption, counseling, early education, and parenting support services to Arizona’s most vulnerable children and families.
Counties: Maricopa
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 385-7526
Catholic Community Services of Southern AZ
Catholic Community Services of Southern AZ helps children, families, and individuals live with independence and dignity through their many different services.
Counties: Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz
Great for:Military Families, Single Parents, Married Couples (1 year plus)
Phone Number:(520) 458-4203
Casa De Los Ninos
Casa de los Niños supports prospective foster parents by not only guiding them through the foster care licensing process, but also by being available for emotional support, encouragement, and guidance through the foster care journey. We also work with families who would accept children and adults with developmental delays.
Counties: Pima
Great for:Spanish Speaking Families, Military Families, Single Parents, Two-Parent Families, LGBTQ Families
Phone Number:(520) 326-8250
Arizona’s Children Association
Arizona’s Children Association is committed to providing a specifically tailored continuum of family focused, strength-based, culturally sensitive and outcome driven services to children and families in need.
Counties: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 253-1620
Arizona Faith and Families
Arizona Faith and Families rallies the Christian church to respond to the crisis of children who are in need of homes through biblical training that prepares and equips parents for their family ministry.
Counties: Maricopa
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Married Couples (1 year plus)
Phone Number:(623) 300-6073
A Place to Call Home
A Place to Call Home provides foster and adoptive homes for children in foster care, developmental homes for children and adults with developmental disabilities, respite services, as well as training for licensing and respite.
Counties: Apache, Coconino, Gila, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(480) 456-0549
A New Leaf
A New Leaf provides a broad spectrum of support services to help individuals and families succeed, focusing on providing the critical skills to achieve lifelong independence.
Counties: Maricopa, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ, Single Parents, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(480) 733-3053
Onward Hope, Inc.
Onward Hope is a foster care, adoption and transitions services agency that provides home recruitment, study, supervision, foster parent pre-service training and parent aide
Counties: Maricopa
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, Married Couples (1 year plus)
Phone Number:(602) 441-2723
RISE Services Inc.
RISE provides foster care, disability and Early Intervention services, including day programs, managed care, employment assistance, summer programs, kinship care, mental health services, Speech Therapy and Developmental Specialists.
Counties: Maricopa, Pima, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(480) 295-4945
Casey Family Programs
Casey Family Programs is focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building Communities of Hope for children and families across America.
Counties: Maricopa
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 252-9449
Arizona Baptist Children’s Services
Arizona Baptist Children’s Services desires to provide hope and care to hurting children and families through Christ-centered ministries.
Counties: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Yavapai, Yuma
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Married couples
Phone Number:(800) 678-0648
Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona, Inc.
Agape is a Christian based Phoenix adoption agency with a passion to empower positive outcomes for children and families by collaborating with birth parents, adoptive and foster families, government agencies and community service providers throughout the journey of life, love and healing.
Counties: Maricopa
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ, Single Parents, Married Couples (1 year plus)
Phone Number:(480) 272-7994
AASK
Aid to Adoption of Special Kids, AASK, aims to ensure every child in foster care in Arizona has someone who cares deeply about them by making the job of providing a foster home as easy as possible.
Counties: Maricopa, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Families Speaking ASL, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 930-4900
La Paloma Family Services
La Paloma Family Services provides shelter, counseling, guidance and assistance to Arizona’s at-risk children with services designed to provide the tools and support children need to meet life’s challenges.
Counties: Pima
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(520) 429-4247
Love of Children
Love of Children recruits, trains, retains, licenses, and/or certifies foster and adoptive families for children who are in foster care or placed for adoption.
Counties: Maricopa, Navajo
Great for:Military Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(480) 549-8454
Intermountain Centers for Human Development
Intermountain Centers has been supporting foster parents across the state for nearly 50 years. Our experienced foster care staff will guide you through each step in becoming a foster parent. You can provide a home for one child or more.
Counties: Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yuma
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ+ Families, Single Parent Families, *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(833) 528-0182
Christian Family Care
Christian Family Care aims for a future where every vulnerable child is loved and nurtured in a Christ-centered family by partnering with families, churches and caring neighbors to provide comprehensive adoption and foster care services.
Counties: Cochise, Coconino, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Married Couples (1 year plus), *Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 234-1935
VisionQuest National Ltd.
VisonQuest National puts youth and families first with innovative therapies and programs like pathfinder homes, Functional Family Therapy®, case management services and services for unaccompanied children.
Counties: Pima
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Families Speaking ASL, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(520) 270-2162
Southwest Human Development
Southwest Human Development strengthens the foundation Arizona’s children need for a great start in life through a commitment to services that uplift the lives of children, families and other care providers.
Counties: Maricopa, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 633-8193
A Circle Together
A Circle Together and its affiliate programs aim to promote holistic strength-based, and family-based principles within the foster care community while therapeutically supporting and strengthening youth, families, organizations, and communities through the creation of innovative services.
Counties: Maricopa, Pima, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, LGBTQ Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 668-6601
The following agencies are non-contracted agencies that only support Therapeutic Foster Care
Pathways of Arizona
Since 1997 we have been providing quality outpatient and foster care services throughout Arizona. We provide a continuum of services including: Therapeutic Foster Care as well as outpatient services: intake and assessment, case management, individual and family therapy and psychiatric.
Counties: Maricopa, Pima, Yuma
Great for:Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(800) 489-0064
Devereux Arizona Foster Care Services
Devereux’s Therapeutic Foster Care program serves children 5-17 years old who are exhibiting emotional and behavioral challenges that interfere with their daily functioning to the extent that they require out-of-home behavioral health placement to support their needs.
Counties: Maricopa, Pima
Great for:Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 283-7107
Human Services Consultants
Human Services Consultants specializes in training, licensing and supporting Therapeutic Foster Families utilizing evidence-based behavioral health programming and curriculum.
Counties: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, Yuma
Great for:Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(602) 279-1427
Brighter Heights Arizona
Brighter Heights Arizona provides therapeutic services for adults and adolescents, located in Prescott Valley. We offer therapeutic foster care homes and adolescent/adult group homes, providing a continuum of care as needed.
Counties: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, Yuma
Great for:Therapeutic Foster Care
Phone Number:(928) 910-8687
The Zion Institute
The Zion Institute is known for being “The Well”, where residents are met at their point of need to begin a healing journey. The campus offers a variety of services to meet the needs of the community, including therapeutic foster care, behavioral healthcare, human services, resource navigation support and the connection to a Zion ecosystem that includes various providers in multiple fields of service.
Counties: Maricopa, Pinal
Great for:Military Families, Spanish Speaking Families, Single Parents
Phone Number:(602) 268-7502
Ready to Start Your Journey?
Whether you know a child in your family who may need kinship care or you are looking to foster within your local community, AZ DCS can help you prepare for the chance to change the lives of those whose need is greatest. We invite you to start your orientation and learn more about the legal requirements for becoming a foster parent while hearing from some of the wonderful people who’ve been in your shoes. After you complete the short orientation, we’ll help match you to an agency that will hold your hand throughout the entire licensure process.