Safe Haven Community Services
Foster care is a program designed to provide a temporary loving, safe, and family orientated home for children who have been removed from their biological family’s home due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Children are placed with Safe Haven foster parents who have been trained specifically to meet their need for a loving and supportive home environment. The children are in the legal care of the State of Texas, but like all children they need a family to care for them. Children range in age from infants to teenagers and typically remain in foster care until permanency is reached.
Permanency is reached by family reunification or adoption. They come from many different ethnic backgrounds. The highest priority need is for foster homes capable of caring for sibling groups and children from minority groups.
Services and information
- Kinship / Relative Care
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
- Other
Requirements to become a foster parent
Adults who are new to the fostering process sometimes feel overwhelmed and wonder if they will have support on their journey. Your child-placing agency is the first resource. Social services caseworkers provide aspiring foster parents with various types of support and connections. These include free educational training programs, helplines, and support groups.
It is important that foster parents build their individual support network, too. Connecting with other foster families with more experience is an excellent place to begin. Texas groups offer foster parent meetups; you can search online for the closest one.
The Texas Foster Family Association provides state training, a regional directory of support services, a summer training conference, and more. Membership benefits include getting access to foster care professionals and learning more about ways to become better caregivers. Children of TFFA members can also get assistance through the Scholarship Fund.
Austin Angels is another support organization that strives to assist foster parents and Texas foster children. They offer care packages and gifts for foster children and their caregivers, mentorship options, and education, among other resources. Foster children and teens can learn valuable skills that help prepare them for independent living, as well.
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