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FOSTER CARE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Children’s Home Foster Care Program offers children a home life
with healthy families that will teach them how to live and love.
We offer two types of foster care programs: Specialized, and
Traditional.
 Through
these programs, we are able to offer a full continuum of care by
working with and helping children to “step down” and graduate
from Specialized Foster Care to Traditional Foster Care. We make
it a goal of our programs to maintain children in the same
foster home when “stepping down” from Specialized to Traditional
Foster Care.
SERVICES OFFERED
Specialized Foster Care
Children served in our Specialized Foster Care Program are 4 to
20 years of age. The program was developed to serve
multi-problematic children and youth who have been abused and
neglected, and who currently cannot be placed with their natural
families, but who can be managed in a family and
community-based setting.
The severity of behaviors exhibited by children and youth in
this program are much more significant than children and youth
in traditional foster care. The Specialized Program provides
intensive casework and clinical services to children/youth, and
in collaboration with trained foster parents, provide a team
approach as the vehicle of service delivery. The staff also work
closely with biological parents to help parents reunite with
their children when appropriate. The average length of stay for
a child in this program is twelve months.
Traditional Foster Care
This program provides basic, temporary foster family care to
abused and neglected children. Children served through this
program are those who have recently been removed from their
natural home and may exhibit minimal problems. The caseworker
visits the child and family at least monthly as well as
facilitates regular visitation between the child and natural
family. Counseling is also provided but the intensity of
services is significantly less than those in the Specialized
Programs. This program focuses on achievement of permanency
goals, with return home being the predominant goal of the
children in the Traditional Foster Care Program.
For more information on Foster Care,
please contact
Karen C. Harrington , LCSW, Vice
President of Foster Care.
Phone: (309)687-7320
E-mail: kharring@chail.org
Fax: (309)687-7399
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