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Thank you for your interest in becoming a foster or adoptive parent. Arizona contracts with many licensing agencies to support and train foster parents. By contracting with these agencies we are able to offer families more choices. This is important because families will work very closely with their licensing agencies. For this reason, it is important for the family to find an agency that is a good fit for them. For additional questions or guidance, please call the KIDS NEED U line at 1-877-543-7633.
A New Leaf

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Phone: (480) 733-3053

Email: [email protected]

A New Leaf is a Joint Commission accredited, non-profit 501(c)(3) agency. Its mission of Helping Families...Changing Lives, is achieved through the provision of relevant and effective services, delivered with compassion, sincerity and clarity of purpose. The agency’s comprehensive continuum of care, includes services offered at 20 different program sites, serving vulnerable populations throughout Maricopa County. Since 1971, A New Leaf has been making a positive impact in the community, serving approximately 18,000 men, women and children annually.

As an agency, A New Leaf recognizes that children thrive in a loving home with a strong support structure. To that end, our Foster Care programs provide a wide range of services, including foster care licensure and certification and placement for children with behavioral challenges.  The foster care program provides services to families looking to become foster parents. The children in foster care need loving, safe and secure homes.  A New Leaf has facilitated many adoptions to loving foster parents. The foster care program has provided a safe home to hundreds of children.  

The Therapeutic Foster Care program matches experienced people interested in becoming licensed, therapeutic foster parents and/or respite providers. Children range from infancy to 18 years of age with high levels of behavioral, emotional and psychiatric needs. Therapeutic Foster Care strives to provide children and adolescents with the opportunity to live in a nurturing and stable environment with a family-like structure and prevent at-risk youth and adolescents from escalating to higher levels of care. To be eligible to be a therapeutic foster parent, you are required to have at least one year of foster care experience or a background in behavioral health.

A New Leaf also licenses next of kin, including grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and other kinship relationships. These are members of the extended family who care for their own family members through the Department of Child Safety system. We provide supportive services and licensing to these family members.

A New Leaf's Parent Aide Program provides services to families whose children are placed in the legal custody of Arizona's Department of Child Safety (DCS). The program provides a range of support services, instruction and assistance to parents or caregivers to improve their skills and ability to fulfill parenting responsibilities. A New Leaf employs and trains Parent Support Partners in the skills necessary to transport, monitor and educate parent/guardians in various aspects of parenting techniques. The Parent Support Partners schedule case assessments in cooperation with DCS Specialists to identify behavior changes required for reunification and report progress on a regularly scheduled basis. The program provides individualized services to accommodate the needs of the family's schedule, including weekends and evenings.

A New Leaf accepts single providers, those living in apartments, renting, and or homeowners, including same-sex couples and families of all backgrounds.  We do not have breed restrictions on pets, as long as they are friendly and rabies vaccinated.

A Place To Call Home

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Phone:

  • Phoenix Area (480) 456-0549

  • Tucson Area (520) 318-9906

Email: [email protected]

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When you become a part of the A Place to Call Home family, you experience a relationship where quality and character matters. Our priority is ensuring the success of our families and always keeping the child or adult at the forefront of all our decision making. Quality and timely service is our trademark, but providing safe and loving homes for our children and adults is our passion.

A Place to Call Home was founded in 1998 with one thing in mind: to make a difference in the lives of children and adults with special needs and disabilities.

With a large pool of resources, our families have an extensive amount of support. We act as advocates not only for the children and adults, but for their foster, adoptive, or developmental home providers as well.

 We provide:

  • Specific training to care for children and adults with disabilities, behavioral or medical needs

  • Resource and support for the whole family

  • Assisting and advocating for services for educational, behavioral, and medical needs

  • Experienced and dedicated staff to assist you on your journey

  • Spanish Bilingual staff available

  • Expedited licensing process — APTCH will work with your family to complete your home study while you are completing the pre-service training

  • Behavioral Support Services-to provide training and one on one assistance to meet any challenging behavioral needs

  • Adoption Specialist-assisting your family in navigating the adoption process

  • Respite Coordinator-assisting families in scheduling respite to provide a break for the family

  • On call nurse-to support and provide training as needed for specific medical needs and equipment

  • Placement Coordination-matching the needs of the child or adult in need of out of home care with the family’s skills

  • Trainers-provide pre-service and ongoing training to meet families’ needs in group and one-on-one setting

APTCH strongly recommends pool fencing for any body of water for all ages of children in care as Arizona has the second highest number of drownings in the United States.  We work with foster parents to obtain state approved pool fencing by working with community business and organizations to provide donated or reduced/low cost fencing for pool fences for foster children. 

APTCH provides additional training free of charge to all of our foster parents.  The training is designed to prepare foster parents for a child with special needs, medical issues, developmental delays or disabilities that may not have been known previously.  The training provides foster families with additional behavior management techniques and knowledge to identify and interpret non-traditional and non-age-appropriate development and behaviors. 

APTCH prefers a stay at home provider for families caring for children ages zero to three years old.  This allows for healthy bonding and attachment between the primary caregiver and the child during the age where most bonding and attachment occurs.

Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona, Inc.

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Phone: (480) 272-7994

Email: [email protected]

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Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona’s motto is “Love Never Fails.” By delivering excellent, personalized services to families throughout Maricopa County, Agape’s qualified and caring staff believes that meeting the needs of families can be as simple as creating a team that is committed to the “A, B, C’s”: A – Adoptive and foster homes who provide effective parenting for children that need safe, loving and supportive homes; B – Birth families who may require assistance in overcoming emotional, educational, financial and professional challenges; C – Children who are placed into safe, loving homes and with parents who are appropriately trained are supported. As a non-profit, faith-based agency, Agape proudly provides foster care licensing, foster-adopt, and kinship advocacy services in a southeast cooperative environment that is focused on meeting the needs of our clients. We are conveniently located in East Phoenix, conduct orientation and training meetings throughout the Valley, and are happy to talk with you about how we can help you build your family.

Aid to Adoption for Special Kids (AASK)

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Phone: (602) 930-4900

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AASK (Aid to Adoption of Special Kids) is a private non-profit charity that was founded in 1988 with the mission of bringing relationships to children in Arizona’s foster care system. AASK understands how difficult yet rewarding it is to be a foster or adoptive parent. AASK has designed all of its programs to support you in your crucial goal of providing a “family” relationship to children in care during this very difficult time in their lives.

AASK has designed its program around the children and families it serves. In addition to the traditional foster care program AASK offers specialized foster care programs for children with a developmental disability, medically complex condition and those of First Nations.

AASK is attune to the special needs of kinship foster families and its kinship program provides unlicensed relative families with immediate case management services and support while they complete the licensing or certification processes. The Todos Los Niños (TLN) program offers bilingual, culturally relevant services to Latino families.

The AASK Mentoring Program connects youth with caring and supportive adults. As this relationship evolves, it has the potential to provide the child with a “family” connection even though the child lives in a non-family setting such as a group home or shelter. AASK’s Sibling Initiative focuses on reconnecting brothers and sisters separated by the foster care system.

AASK offers up to 144 hours a year of free respite relief to each foster family, including unlicensed kinship families.  During this time to rest and recharge, care is provided by qualified licensed foster homes. AASK does not want to discourage you from caring for multiple children, AASK Respite hours are deducted at an hour to hour basis instead of hour per child. This means that an AASK family with four children placed with them can put all four children in respite for 144 hours instead of only 36 hours per child.

AASK provides the required licensing class in both English and Spanish. There are week night and weekend classes. This training consists of 15 hours of in-person classes taught by AASK trainers and an online, interactive, multi-media component.  This training is offered at each of our three locations across the Valley.

AASK is committed to those who have committed to children in foster care.  AASK foster families, adoptive families and mentors know they have quick and convenient access to us through online ‘live chat’, work phone, cell phone and e-mail access. AASK offices in central Phoenix, Peoria and Chandler offer access to AASK staff, training rooms and other supportive resources. An after-hours emergency number keeps you connected to us 24/7/365.

To ensure your success and support your family, we offer connections to on-staff nurses, support groups, behavioral specialists, advanced training classes and bilingual staff. AASK has 30 years of experience helping families and is the largest agency in Maricopa and Pinal counties whose exclusive focus is on children in foster care.

AmeriPsych

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Phone: 1 (866) 677-0024 Toll Free

Email: [email protected]

AmeriPsych has over 24 years of experience operating social service and child welfare programs, and is a leading provider of foster care and adoption, parent education and training, and supervised visitation services across the state of Arizona. Our skilled and knowledgeable staff provide individualized services to families, assisting them in all facets of becoming a licensed foster or certified adoptive home. Services include state-approved pre-service training, assistance in completion of the licensing process, and the provision of ongoing support to families once children are placed in the home.

We pride ourselves on being accessible and responsive to our families, and provide assistance and guidance throughout the foster care experience. AmeriPsych provides these services across the state of Arizona, with the exception of Graham and Greenlee counties. We recognize and support the diversity of today’s families, and proudly serve any family that will ensure for the safety and well-being of children in foster care. As a member of the ResCare family of services, AmeriPsych also has the support of a human services company with nearly 40 years of experience helping people in need. ResCare’s extensive team of dedicated and caring people provides quality services which promote safe and stable environments to individuals and families across the United States. AmeriPsych is pleased to support and assist families as they journey through the unique and noble adventure known as Foster Care!

Arizona Baptist Children’s Services (Arms of Love Foster Care)

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Phone: (800) 678-0648

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Arms of Love Foster Care is a ministry of Arizona Baptist Children's Services & Family Ministries (ABCS). ABCS is a faith-based non-profit with seven ministries and one mission: to provide hope and care to hurting children and families through Christ-centered ministries.  Arms of Love’s ministry purpose is to offer hope and care to Arizona’s foster children. We do this by partnering with families to provide safe and loving homes for dependent children.  The families who partner with Arms of Love feel called to the mission of opening their homes to Arizona’s foster children to show them the love of Christ, whether it is for a temporary or a permanent frame of time. Our staff understands that relationship with our foster families is important — they are fully trained to support foster and adoptive families through the licensing and certification process, and are able to support families by regularly attending DCS meetings alongside the family, helping the family advocate on the behalf of children, assisting with techniques as behavior challenges come along, and also offer regular prayer support.  As an agency, we have additional trainings available as well as material support through donations from the community. We understand that fostering and adopting can also be a time of faith for our families — when families are in need, mentor families and support groups are available to them. The goal of the ministry is to love and care for the children you serve and to take opportunities to love and care for the people around those children in hopes of having an eternal impact.

Arizona Faith and Families

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Phone: (623) 300-6073

Email: [email protected]

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Arizona Faith and Families is a nonprofit Christian agency created in response to James 1:27.  Operating within a biblical worldview, all foster care and adoption applicants will be supported through prayer and biblical counsel.  Our highly trained staff are Christians who actively live out their faith and have personal experience with foster care and/or adoption.  Our mission is to recruit foster and adoptive parents who seek to honor Christ by meeting the needs of children in Arizona’s foster care system and who hold to the truths taught in traditional Protestant Christianity.  Our staff will work hard to ensure that your family is in the best position for success in your home.  We offer our services throughout Maricopa County, and all services are free of charge, including: home studies, foster licenses, adoption certifications, state-mandated training, advanced training, family care, support groups, behavior management support, and 24/7 availability in case of emergency.  Training classes are hosted throughout the Valley and our training schedule can be viewed on our website. 

Arizona Partnership for Children (AzPaC)

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Phone: (602) 283-7138

Email: [email protected]

Arizona Partnership for Children, LLP (AzPaC) is a statewide service delivery network of 3 community-based nonprofit organizations, including

Through this strong statewide network, AzPaC provides pre-service training, home study, and ongoing monitoring and support services for foster and adoptive families across the State of Arizona. The program provides foster homes for children of all ages and many levels of care, including: regular foster care, therapeutic (HCTC) foster care, respite care and relative (kinship) foster care. The Training program provides prospective foster families with a pre-service education series in preparation of becoming a foster and/or adoptive home for children in custody of DCS. The foster care licensing/certification to adopt program provides support services including an assigned licensing worker, support functions and activities for the whole family, an annual training calendar with training opportunities each month, respite care and a 24 hour emergency contact number available to all families.  AzPaC has locations across the State to offer options to families and to serve the various needs of children and families in Arizona.

Arizona’s Children Association

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Phone: (602) 253-1620

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Founded in May of 1912, Arizona’s Children Association (AzCA) is one of the oldest and largest statewide comprehensive child welfare and behavioral health not-for-profit agencies in Arizona. For more than 100 years, AzCA has stayed true to the mission of “Protecting Children, Empowering Youth, and Strengthening Families.”

Located in all fifteen (15) Arizona counties, we provide a myriad of programs and services tailored to meet the needs of more than 42,000 children, youth, and families each year. Some of our programs and services include Foster Care & Adoption, Child Specific Recruitment, Kinship Support, Transitional Living Services, Behavioral Health & Trauma/Crisis Response, Family Preservation & Reunification, and Family Education & Support. 

Arizona’s Children Association is the largest foster care provider in Arizona!  We train and support foster care and kinship families who can open their hearts and homes to vulnerable children while their biological families are on the mend.  We also collaborate with adoption placing agencies to provide a variety of adoption related services for those seeking to adopt internationally, privately, and from the foster care system.  Our professionally trained, caring, and dedicated staff provide a broad spectrum of services that help create and sustain a healthy family environment. Our team members expertly navigate between our behavioral health and child welfare programs to provide additional supports and resources to our children, youth, and families. We believe that every child deserves a permanent home that is safe and nurturing and we strive toward that goal.

All programs are family focused, strength based, culturally sensitive, and outcome driven. Arizona’s Children Association welcomes traditional and non-traditional, single or two-parent families regardless of race, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin or disability.

At AzCA, more than 92 cents of every dollar is spent on programs and services and we have been recognized by The Business Journal as one of Arizona’s top-ranking charitable organizations.

We also maintain a number of additional accreditations, state licenses and organization memberships that allow the agency to remain on the leading edge of child welfare and behavioral health issues in Arizona and the country. AzCA is licensed by the Arizona Departments of Behavioral Health and Child Safety and nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA) and Better Business Bureau.

Casa de los Niños

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Phone: (520) 624-5600

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The best place for a child is in a home.  Are you ready to open your home to a child in need?

Foster families play a vital role in helping children who have experienced trauma by:

  • providing a stable, loving home
  • supporting the biological family to help them heal and grow
  • working in partnership with other professionals to meet the child’s unique needs
  • patiently addressing the child’s medical, behavioral and emotional needs
  • attending trainings to develop and maintain skills relevant to foster care

Casa de los Ninos Foster Care Program’s primary role is to ensure foster family stability and child well-being while maintaining licensing standards.  Ensuring stability and well-being include providing support and encouragement, advocating for the family and children placed in the home, training, 24/7 assistance, and to act as a liaison between the foster family and the Department of Child Safety (DCS) and other service providers.  Your Casa de los Ninos Foster Family Support Specialist will help you through the initial licensing process and also attend Child Family Team meetings, Court hearings or offer support as needed.  We welcome single and two-parent families and have no restrictions based on religious beliefs, ethnicity or sexual orientation. We provide extensive support to families who are raising relative children.

Support Groups are offered to provide a safe place to discuss your feelings about being a foster parent, and also offer a time to learn about different topics.   Fun events are planned at different times each year.  Semi-annual 6 hour trainings are provided to help licensed foster parents obtain the required training needed for renewal. 

Becoming a foster parent takes time and commitment, and we are here to help!

Casa de los Niños promotes child well-being and family stability in our community.

Casey Family Programs

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Phone: (877) 840-9135

Casey Family Programs' mission is to provide and improve – and ultimately prevent the need for – foster care in the United States. The Arizona Office seeks families interested in caring for youth ages 11-17. Casey Family Programs has a unique agreement with the Department of Child Safety (DCS) wherein Casey staff assume case management responsibilities, in partnership with a DCS Liaison, for any youth placed in one of our homes.  Casey Family Programs provides day to day case management for approximately 45-55 youth each year, which allows our team of Masters Level Social Workers the ability to provide additional supports to our youth and families, leading to more individualized attention.

Employing a family centered approach; Casey's goal is to reduce the number of youth in the foster care system by partnering with youth and families to expedite permanency through promoting and supporting reunification with birth family or guardianship or adoption with kin or non-relative families. Casey Family Programs is a private operating foundation with independent funding which affords us the ability to offer additional supports to our youth and families and smaller caseloads leading to more individualized attention.

Understanding that a good education is often a predictor of success and a meaningful life, Casey offers an Education Liaison to assist youth and families in navigating the educational system and plan for best possible outcomes for our youth and supports primary and post-secondary educational opportunities for youth in its care. Employing a family centered approach, Casey's goal is to reduce the number of youth in the foster care system by promoting and supporting movement toward reunification with birth family or through guardianship and adoption (which Casey facilitates) with kin or non-relative families. Casey explores innovative practices and gives youth and families opportunities to be involved in and engage the larger community to bring about positive changes to the child welfare system and other systems that serve and support families.

Catholic Charities Community Services

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Phone: (602) 230-4910

Email: [email protected]

Foster care has been a part of Catholic Charities’ mission for more than 80 years, growing naturally from the belief that every child has the right to the love, protection and care of a strong and committed family. Our faith teaches us that strong families make strong communities and as such, we actively recruit and license families who are willing to open their hearts and homes to children in foster care. We welcome families from diverse cultural, ethnic, social and religious backgrounds. We partner with foster families to provide a safe, nurturing, and culturally sensitive environment that equips and empowers children to reach their full potential. Children placed in foster care come from every social, economic, and ethnic background. They have been abused or neglected, or may have medical or emotional special needs. They need a home and someone to love them and care for them. Our staff goes out of their way to make sure that foster parents have what they need so they can be the kind of parents that children placed in foster care need them to be. We provide education to help families learn the unique needs of the children, work closely with families to determine their strengths through the home study process, provide on-going educational opportunities, respite care, 24-hour emergency access to agency staff and support and guidance throughout the time a child is placed in the foster home. Foster parenting is a special calling and at Catholic Charities, we truly believe that every child should grow up in a safe, loving and nurturing environment.

Child Crisis Arizona

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Phone: (480) 834-9424

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For 40 years Child Crisis Arizona’s foster care and adoption program has been committed to helping children in out-of-home care by licensing and certifying parents for foster care and adoption. In addition to regular foster care, we offer a kinship program with supports geared to those raising relatives DCS has placed in the home, as well as a foster care program for those who would like to meet the needs of children with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and developmental delays. We have an adoption program to meet the needs of families who are only interested in adoption and do not wish to provide foster care.  We provide extensive support to the families we serve and are proud of our low disruption rate. Bi-monthly fun family events are open to all of our current foster and adoptive families.  Our combination of services and support, along with realistic training, prepares families for the placement of children of all ages and backgrounds. Child Crisis Arizona works with both single- and two-parent families and welcomes all religious beliefs, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Additionally, we actively seek foster and adoptive parents from the Native American and LGBT communities. 

There are many myths about foster care and adoption, but most often we hear how parents who intended to positively impact a child’s life have had their lives equally transformed. If you would like more information about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, give us a call at 480-834-9424 or contact one of our Adoption/Foster Care Specialists directly by visiting our website and filling out our online Foster Care & Adoption Inquiry form.

Christian Family Care

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Phone: (602) 234-1935

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Christian Family Care brings families together through foster care and adoption — going far beyond Arizona requirements to provide ongoing Christ-centered support — ensuring that every child has a chance to thrive. When you foster or adopt through Christian Family Care, you have access to our professional counseling and Christ-centered support services. A team of dedicated professionals will be there to encourage you, to pray with you, and to respond to unexpected challenges or emergencies. CFC offers counseling within 48 hours of a crisis to help stabilize a foster or adoption placement. By providing professional care and counseling, we’re giving every family the tools they need to succeed, and every child the best chance to experience abundant love in a stable and nurturing environment. The training you will receive as a foster or adoptive parent will equip you to become a trauma-informed parent and meet the emotional needs of the child in your care. Christian Family Care provides the extra classes, counseling and coaching needed to ensure stable placements and connections at little to no cost to adoptive and foster families. CFC offers a wide range of courses that build up families and equip parents and guardians to interact authentically and effectively with at-risk children.

By God’s grace, this strategic approach to foster care and adoption has transformed the lives of thousands of traumatized children and the families who welcomed them into their homes. These “wrap” services exceed what is required by Arizona’s Department of Child Safety and they’re giving countless families and children new hope.

Foster and adoptive families may face many challenges and unknowns. Christian Family Care meets the obstacles head on by surrounding our foster and adoptive families with the redeeming love of Jesus Christ. We ask that our foster and adoptive families agree to our statement of faith and that they are actively involved in a church. Other requirements can be found on our website.

CPES Loving Hearts Foster Care & Developmental Homes

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Phone: (844) 764-1819

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Community Provider of Enrichment Services, Inc. (CPES) looks forward to meeting your family! 

We have been family support experts since the Company started in 1980 and together our foster care team has over 75 years of combined experience training, licensing and supporting foster parents! This gives us an edge as a knowledgeable agency regarding the many rules, regulations and roles involved in foster care. We strive to meet your needs throughout the foster parent experience, starting with excellent training and development goals for the skills you need for successful foster parenting. Our team will give you individualized attention and prompt responses due to our smaller caseloads that allow for excellence in the licensing process.

Some other highlights of the CPES Loving Hearts Foster Care program:

  • We offer Foster Parent College Training throughout the year, and also offer on-going training and enrichment opportunities;
  • We have foster care staff on-call 24 hours a day so our foster families can reach a licensing specialist whenever they need to;
  • We have a first year mentoring program that pairs an experienced foster family with a newly licensed family for additional support and information;
  • We maintain a respite network to provide breaks and alternative care for families;
  • We host an annual Christmas Party and a Spring/Summer Special Event to cultivate a sense of community among our families and to provide a fun, light-hearted activity for all everyone;
  • We license Kinship Families, Family Foster Homes, Therapeutic Foster Care (Pima County only) and Child or Adult Developmental Homes for all levels of care needs and individuals;
  • The CPES Loving Hearts Thrift Shop is open to all current foster parents for “wish list” and other household items as available. 

The team at CPES loves working with families and building strengths as we grow Loving Hearts family tree. Call us today to get your questions answered and to get started on your foster parenting experience with CPES!

Devereux Arizona

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Phone:

  • Maricopy County - (602) 283-7107
  • Pima County - (520) 576-5801

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At Devereux Arizona we believe all children deserve to live in a safe and loving family environment that honors them as individuals and human beings — worthy of a life free of abuse and neglect. We continually incorporate new innovations to advance our services, our industry and the lives of those we serve so that all children and families can reach their potential. We change lives through relentless optimism and perseverance to support the lifelong journey of those we serve.

We value diversity and embrace the opportunity to welcome and serve all individuals regardless of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression. As evidence of this commitment, we are the first and only Arizona foster care agency to earn the all children-all families seal of recognition from the Human Rights Campaign, recognizing us as a leader within the community in working with and serving LGBTQ individuals and their families. As part of our further commitment to excellence, Devereux Arizona is Joint Commission accredited which ensures that all aspects of our foster care program meet the highest community standards as set forth by the independent, national accreditation body.

Our organization was founded in 1912 by a school teacher in Philadelphia. She became discouraged as she saw, firsthand, that children with special needs were underserved by the public education system. Believing she could do better, she began teaching some of these children in her own home. She strongly believed that children, regardless of the level of their disabilities, could learn and achieve personal growth in an environment tailored to their needs. From those humble beginnings, Devereux has grown to a national organization providing a wide range of prevention, child welfare, behavioral health, autism, and intellectual and developmental disability programs throughout the country.

Our Philosophy of Care is rooted in the principles of Trauma Informed Care, Positive Behavioral Supports, and Family Engagement. We seek to identify the best foster parents throughout the State of Arizona to help us in our mission to provide safe, nurturing, and loving homes to the children and adolescents of our communities that have been subjected to abuse and neglect. We partner with our foster families to provide them with the latest and best training to engage them in learning the best strategies for caring for this vulnerable population.

We provide 24/7 access to crisis support services through our foster care program as well as our sister programs that provide us an unparalleled continuum of care within the State of Arizona. We have been doing foster care for decades and decades, and our experience is evident in the way we support and celebrate our foster families. We have the knowledge, experience, and compassion to help our foster families meet the challenges and the rewards of fostering!

Family Support Resources (FSR)

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Phone: (623) 931-9300 Ext. 326

Email: [email protected]

Family Support Resources truly values the unique needs of the family. We stand by our claim to provide comprehensive support and access to community resources for our foster and adoptive families. These supports include: free childcare during select training; support groups for foster parents, adoptive parents, and foster children; family appreciation events; back-to-school backpack drives, 24/7 on-call support; and access to a Stabilization Specialist for behavioral concerns or crisis. You will also have flexible alternative care policies and access to paid respite.

FSR is open to licensing single, married, or partnered families who wish to become licensed for Foster Care, Kinship Care, Medically Complex, Respite, and Adoptions for children of all ages and needs. Home studies are completed in a timely manner, and kinship licensing is prioritized. We conduct the required Foster Parent College Preservice training onsite on weekday evenings and Saturdays, with limited free childcare available. Within our caring, family-oriented environment, you will receive professional services by highly educated and qualified staff that has real-life experience. Let FSR help you on your foster care journey and help transform a child's life.

GAP Ministries

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Phone: (520) 392-8469

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There is nothing more rewarding than opening your home and family to a child in need. Let GAP Ministries be by your side, both physically and spiritually, during the journey of becoming a foster parent. GAP Ministries has been a constant in the Tucson Foster Care Community since 1999 and will be a great resource to you and your family. GAP Ministries is home to a team of passionate individuals who are dedicated to their job within the foster care community.

GAP Ministries is conveniently located at Miracle Mile and I-10. We invite you to come and take a tour of our 20,000 square foot facility and witness what God has made possible. This facility is a hub for donations where those in the community can come and gather items for those in need. Come and check out our sport court, complete with basketball hoop and jungle gyms, where kids in the community can come and have a safe place to play.

GAP Ministries offers childcare during the foster care classes with a great staff providing games and interactive activities for the children. During the evening classes, GAP Ministries serves a full course dinner to the families who attend, as well as a snack during break. The instructors are well-trained and enjoy teaching the content just as much as you will enjoy learning it.

After becoming a licensed foster parent with GAP Ministries, you are assigned a Licensing Specialist to support you and guide you through the process of caring for children in your home. In addition to the support you will receive with the Licensing Specialist, GAP Ministries also is able to offer other types of resources you may need. We have a clothing bank, a food pantry and often have the necessities you will need to provide care for your foster children. 

Give us a call today and we can answer any questions you may have!

Human Resource Training, Inc. (HRT)

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Phone: (602) 433-1344

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Since 1981, HRT has specialized in preparing and supporting foster families in Arizona. HRT’s Foster Care Support Program (FCSP) believes that children in foster care are entitled to a family to call their own through either foster care or adoption. Our program offers:

  • Training and licensing in Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Northern Arizona, and Yuma.
  • Licensing for Regular Foster Care (DCS), Kinship Foster Care, Respite, Medically Complex, Therapeutic (HCTC), Child/Adult Developmental Homes, and Native American communities.
  • Adoption certifications from the Arizona DCS system and kinship adoptions.
  • 24/7 support from your personal Foster Care Specialist.
  • Low staff turnover and long-term relationships with our foster parents.
  • Access to support from a Master’s Level Family Therapist at no charge

Professional, strengths-based staff make HRT Foster Care Support Program an excellent choice and we welcome all inquiries.

Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest

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Phone: (602) 885-1492

Email: [email protected]

Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest (LSS-SW) lights the way in Arizona, caring for the most vulnerable in our community since 1970. We focus on creating community for all people through our mission of “showing kindness, doing justice and serving those in need”. LSS-SW is proud to license Kinship Families, Regular Foster Homes, Child or Adult Developmental Homes and Medically Complex Homes to include all levels of care needs. We provide state approved pre-service training, assistance with the licensing process, ongoing monitoring, respite care, and 24/7 access for emergencies. In times where children cannot be reunified with their birth families, LSS-SW is able to assist families through the adoption process. LSSSW is about families, not numbers and our emphasis is on providing the support each family needs in order to be successful in this very important endeavor. We welcome single and two-parent families regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity or sexual orientation. We license foster families throughout the greater Phoenix area, including Pinal County. LSS-SW works alongside our foster families that provide safe, stable and loving homes to children and adults placed in their care. Together we can make a difference in the lives of children and adults in our community.

Mending Hearts Family Services

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Phone: (602) 633-2246

Email: [email protected]

Mending Hearts Family Services (MHFS) was founded in 2008 and is a 501(c)3 "not-for-profit" agency. Mending Hearts Family Services has developed a community reputation for having the expertise and practical experience to assist hurting children and adults by focusing on emotional, social and spiritual strengths and needs, as well as relationships. As an agency, Mending Hearts believes that strong, caring individuals and families build strong, caring communities.

Mending Hearts Family Services provides potential foster parents with the required pre-service training that teaches families about the foster care system, child behaviors, discipline versus punishment, and co-parenting with the biological family. Mending Hearts Family Services provides regular foster care, kinship care, and foster-to-adopt services. With the help of the Mending Hearts Family Services specialized team of counselors, the necessary wrap-around services will be offered to support foster families who are parenting children in the DCS custody.

Mending Hearts Family Services devotes its resources to recruiting, training and supporting families to help children through foster care and adoption.  MHFS can take a family through the entire process, from orientation through placement. Our agency is a faith-based agency. We desire to recruit families who share the faith perspective and values. MHFS is a member of the Arizona KIDS Consortium (www.azkidsconsortium.com) which is a coalition of agencies that provide foster care throughout Maricopa County.

There is a critical need for safe, nurturing families to step into the gap and provide homes for Arizona children who are in the care and custody of the Department of Child Safety. Join our team. If every church in this state would have one licensed foster family, then every child in the DCS system would have a placement home. 

Onward Hope, Inc.

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Phone: (602) 441-2723

Email: [email protected]

Onward Hope, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has devoted its energy to passionately advocating for youth in foster care, alumni of foster care, permanency for youth, at-risk youth, the hungry, needy and politically under-represented members of our Arizona family.

We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources, a supportive network, and permanency solutions. We will empower and provide young adults and families the ability to avoid the overwhelming negative statistics of homelessness, lack of education, unemployment, and incarceration, in a safe, trauma-informed, and caring environment. Onward Hope, Inc. is the only HRSS foster care and training organization, that is founded by and operated by an alumni of foster care, giving Onward Hope not only the knowledge of working in the system, but living in the system as well.

Founder and Executive Director, Eshawn Peterson, experienced foster care first hand. Through her experiences, she was guided and realized that she wanted to help make life in and from foster care easier for her younger brothers and sisters in care. They share similar experiences, trials, tribulations, and triumphs. To overcome overwhelming negative statistics, Onward Hope was created initially as a transition center for youth in and from foster care, but it will provide so much more.  

Since its conception, Onward Hope offers a wide range of services including pre-service training, regular foster care, kinship care, foster-to-adopt, and straight adoption services. Family Support Specialists are available 24/7/365 to assist with any needs you may have. We have a unique program for parents who want to foster teens, which helps those teens transition successfully to adulthood.

Pathways

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Phone:

  • Phoenix (602) 455-4626
  • Flagstaff (920) 226-1097
  • Tucson(520) 748-7108
  • Yuma (928) 317-0177

Foster parenting is caring for a child until the child’s parent can resume this responsibility or until a permanent home can be found. It is a commitment. Foster parenting and adoption involves providing a home and stable family life for a child and giving that child a chance to heal, grow and develop. The time frame varies. It can be weeks, months or much longer, depending on the child’s circumstances. In the case of adoption, parents are asked to make a lifetime commitment to a child. Foster and adoptive parents help children through a difficult time, so it is a job for people who can provide love and guidance.

Our Foster Care Program assists families in obtaining Pre-Service training, provides licensure and adoption certification and extensive ongoing support for foster and adoptive parents at the DCS, DES and HCTC (therapeutic) level. Our Foster Care staff have experience in a variety of areas including in-home family preservation services, urgent response, direct care in a residential treatment center, crisis prevention and intervention, licensed foster care provider and unlicensed kinship care. Families receive top-notch preparation for this invaluable service as well as receiving ongoing, round-the-clock support, which is paramount to the success of those children and their foster families.

Providence of Arizona values the importance of ensuring that our children placed in foster care can live with relatives, kin, extended families or foster and adoptive families with the intention of permanency. In addition to general recruitment for foster parents, Providence recognizes the increased need for licensing and supporting kinship families as well as families who are able to provide a home for sibling groups. As a result the foster care staff efforts include identifying kinship families who are able to meet licensing requirements and families

RISE Services Inc.

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Phone: (480) 497-1889

RISE Services Inc. values equality, choice and service above self. As a nonprofit agency, RISE began services to individuals with disabilities over 25 years ago in the state of Arizona. Since that time, services have grown to support children and adults with a variety of needs. RISE Family Services specializes in finding and supporting loving and caring families for children in need of foster and/or adoptive homes. These children are typically placed by Arizona Department of Child Safety, and require a safe, stable and nurturing environment in which to grow.

Foster and Adoptive families receive free pre-service training and preparation to care for these children, as well as intensive support and monitoring once children are placed in the home. Training is offered at times and days that are convenient to families and a RISE Family Specialist is available 24 hours per day for additional support in times of emergency. RISE will also assist a family in the adoption process for children who are unable to reunite with their birth family.

Developmental foster homes for children and adults with developmental disabilities (Child Developmental Home and Adult Developmental Home) are specialized homes, where a family cares for a child or adult placed by the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Additional training is provided to families who desire to provide a home for these individuals. There is no cost to a family who wants to open their home and hearts to a child or adult who needs a foster, developmental or adoptive home

Southwest Human Development (SWHD)

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Phone:

  • (602) 266-5976
  • (602) 633-8482

Email: [email protected]

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For over 35 years, Southwest Human Development, a non-profit organization, has been reaching out to children and families in Arizona with comprehensive and innovative early childhood services. At Southwest Human Development we strive to give all children an optimal start in life with opportunities for a bright and positive future. Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that each child's earliest experiences and relationships establish the foundation for all future development — intellectual, social, emotional, physical and behavioral. A child who starts life and school with a healthy foundation is at a distinct advantage. We at Southwest Human Development are committed to creating a positive future for all young children.

Southwest Human Development’s Kinship Care, Foster Care, and Adoptions Program assists families seeking to provide homes for children who have been removed from their parents due to abuse or neglect. Services include training, kinship home studies, foster care licensing, adoption certifications, and placement supervision and support.  In addition to providing home studies, licensure, and certifications for the Arizona Department of Child Safety, Southwest Human Development provides these same services for out of county or out of state court wards through the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC).

West Valley Child Crisis Center (WVCCC)

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Phone: (623) 848-8863

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For over 30 years, the West Valley Child Crisis Center has provided safe placements for abused and neglected children. The Foster Care and Adoption Program is designed to recruit and train qualified foster and adoptive families.  At West Valley Child Crisis Center, we embrace diversity and seek families that best match the children and youth of Maricopa County, who need temporary and permanent care.

West Valley Child Crisis Center families receive 24/7 post-placement agency support, ongoing education and advocacy services through our staff, respite care, advisory councils, along with parent support initiatives and gatherings.