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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Jan 20, 2018
Need more parking
Oct 30, 2017
Unprofessional? Understatement. Try Christine Connant. Working with DCYF IS hell! Especially when you have to work with the likes of her! DCYF does NOT help. All they know how to do is take children away. They don't always need to give a reason either. They can bring you to court, you can win, but you are still out months of grief, and court costs that you can not get back. Good luck finding anyone who wants to be foster parents.
Oct 29, 2017
Worse business administration I've ever witnessed, really depicts the disregard for care needed throughout child development. Misinformation and incompetency is a norm to the point where the child suffers extensively past the turmoil they are pulled from. Just overall a disgrace. May God be with anyone who has to deal with this place, they will stress you to pieces and misdirect services/resources needed in order to raise a foster child successfully. They'll even go as far as lying and manipulating the child to cover up their inefficiencies and lack of appropriate guidance. Don't provide feedback either because their concern will surround completing tasks just to spite you opposed to caring for the best interest of the child. Beyond disgraceful.
Aug 10, 2017
DCYF doesn't care about the child's welfare as long as they can keep you under their thumb. How many children have died because of their incompetence? Shut this place down and prosecute the vermin employed here.
Jul 02, 2017
People helping/protecting our children.