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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 believes God cares about all people, so serves those in need regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation through services such as group homes, foster care training and licensing, parent aid and job training programs.

Counties: Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz

Great for:Military Families, LGBTQ

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, Santa Cruz

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, Santa Cruz, 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, 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) 881-3950

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 Advanced Behavioral Health

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

Sequel Youth & Family Services

Sequel Youth & Family Services is a leading national behavioral health organization founded in 1999 that develops and operates a broad continuum of treatment programs for children, adolescents, adults, and families with severe behavioral health, emotional, and physical challenges.

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) 777-3280

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.

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