District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
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Contact Information
200 I Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
United States
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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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Nov 17, 2018
Become a Foster parent
Oct 24, 2018
This agency is truly a blessing for many families. It does all it can to support children in need of a safe n secure structured family. Not only does it try to get children of all ages adopted, but also offers assistance to grandparents that have now had to become the parent to their grandchildren. The staff are very caring, compassionate people that are always willing to assist u in any way they can. I have nothing but praises for them all. Keep up the wonderful job that ur doing!!!
Sep 15, 2018
Helps my husband and I with great information and very much more. We love the help that we're receiving there.
Aug 13, 2018
They taking young black children & making it so hard to get them back
Jul 26, 2018
here for my job, I had to wait too long and one of the Security Officers has a very nasty attitude.