Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families
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Contact Information
101 Friendship Street
Providence, RI 02903
United States
Online Contact Form
Providence, RI 02903
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8:30 AM-4 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM-4 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM-4 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM-4 PM |
| Friday | 8:30 AM-4 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
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When children and youth cannot safely live with their own families, the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) identifies an alternative family setting (often referred to as foster care) where they can be safe and thrive – sometimes temporarily and sometimes permanently.
Foster parents are DCYF's primary resource for children who need to be placed outside of their homes. Often foster parents are relative caregivers (sometimes called “kinship caregivers”) who have a prior relationship with the child or youth in their care. Children and youth are sometimes placed with adults in Rhode Island who get a license to serve as foster parents.
The goal of foster care is to reunite children with their birth families whenever possible safely. When reunification is not possible, DCYF works with its partner agencies to match a child with an adoptive family. Many children who are adopted from foster care find their “forever families” in the homes of their foster parents.
We often refer to our foster and adoptive families as “resource families”.
rest in the children in our care.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
- Other
Requirements to become a foster parent
The Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) and the private agencies connected with it offer many resources. If you foster through a private agency, you'll receive support from them.
Foster families in Rhode Island qualify for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). This program subsidizes childcare costs for families caring for foster youth under age 13. Some resources are also available for kids with special needs after age 13 as well.
Contact your private foster care agency or DCYF caseworker to learn more about these options.
Parents that need a break from fostering due to an emergency or other reason can also access respite care. This type of care involves one foster family taking care of another licensed family's child for a brief period.
Resource families receive a foster care maintenance payment to help with a child's needs. The amount varies depending on the child's age and service level of care.
Finally, the DCYF or licensed private agency will help you through the process, provide training, offer assistance managing medical and dental services, etc.
Ratings and Reviews
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Jun 02, 2022
People answering phone need to have better interpersonal skills, the first rule of HUMINT is to treat people with respect so you get the information you need.
Treating everyone as a crook, even concerned citizens calling about child safety concerns means you are DODGING doing your job by being aggressive with the general public.
This is the worst possible way to collect information from a populace. It doesn't work, the phone people need to be retrained or replaced.
May 31, 2022
I know the other reviews say the opposite but I need to make sure it is known that DCYF ignored all the signs when I was growing up. All the signs of abuse and neglect that was my family. I watched my aunt beat her children every day for years. She would go off for days on a drunk binger without even a phone call to those watching her kids for a "few hours". I watched as she forced my cousin to call every guy she was with (Some times multiple in the same day) Daddy starting at the age of 2 years old and lasting until she was a teenager. DCYF did nothing. Over four years with a caseworker and they could never see the truth that was so very obvious, My complaint isn't that they took my cousins, it is that they didn't so I was stuck watching their abuser be praised by DCYF sometimes just hours after beating her child so badly he couldn't stand up.
May 04, 2022
I wish no stars was an option. They don't even deserve the 1.9.
Feb 17, 2022
This department uses a loophole in state law to legally kidnap and traffic children. They are in the business of tearing innocent families apart with their false allegations, incompetence, evil and sadistic ways. They violate human rights on a regular basis, they use "gag orders" to silence those who are not afraid to speak up and expose them of their corruption. These people sleep just fine at night doing what they do. They don't offer services to everybody and are quick to petition for a termination of a parental rights at the slightest chance they get. They need to be audited and there needs to be reform.
Nov 12, 2019
This place is terrible in My opinion it's sad to see family's broken up even tho some deserve it