District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
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Contact Information
200 I Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
United States
Online Contact Form
Washington, DC 20003
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | Open 24 hours |
| Tuesday | Open 24 hours |
| Wednesday | Open 24 hours |
| Thursday | Open 24 hours |
| Friday | Open 24 hours |
| Saturday | Open 24 hours |
| Sunday | Open 24 hours |
Over 500 District children and teens are living outside their birth homes under the care of the public child welfare system. All these young people deserve to grow up with the security, guidance, and support only a family environment provides. What’s more, they deserve to know their community cares. Yet nearly half of all District children and youth in care are placed in Maryland. We need more foster homes in the District to keep children in their community.
CFSA continuously recruits, trains, and licenses District residents to be foster parents. CFSA offers two pathways to adoption from the public child welfare system: foster to adopt and child-specific adoption.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Because there aren't enough foster parents in the District of Columbia, many foster kids end up living in nearby Maryland. However, D.C. has its own minimum requirements for licensing foster parents. Parents for District foster children need must:
- Be at least 21 years old
- Prove financial resources to support a child
- Rent or own a home
- Show you are healthy enough to care for a child
- Provide enough space in the house for each foster child
- Complete 30 hours of training
- Pass a Home Study
There is no minimum parenting experience required. Foster parents in the District of Columbia can be single or married, with or without biological children at home. In fact, licensed homes are often a mix of biological and foster or adopted children.
You can work outside the home or be a stay-at-home parent. To help offset the costs of childcare, foster families receive assistance for every foster child in the home.
Ratings and Reviews
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Sep 11, 2022
The security are so helpful I Love there energy
May 05, 2022
If you are an avid child abuser or neglecter, but want to keep your kids so that you can still collect their welfare money & keep ur free housing voucher then MOVE TO DC. CPS will do all they can to make sure your kids will stay to keep being abused by you & other people. They will help you find long term housing and more free money from nonprofits, so that your kids can be abused by u for longer. Make sure you ask for your social worker to be Lakisha and Teisha they will look out for u.
Jan 17, 2022
I still have her card because,
She gave it to me! 👨🏾💻
👁💪🏾🥴,
I kept it, all these years! 🧘🏾♂️
Nov 25, 2021
My expectation was short lived.
Nov 08, 2021
I have personally witness that this agency has some corruption in it! Kids need real heroes! Some people are not really in the best interests of the child ,and some people are in secret cults and some are just financial Opportunist! Some people are hurting the kids that they have took into their homes and I feel like they were placed into a worser home. They should regularly check up on these kids in these homes of adoption kids and non- adopted kids...they should not ask kids questions around the people they are with too ...