Foster Care
Foster Care information
Nancy Brock
(757) 664 - 6079
Email
Foster Care
Foster Care is a program that provides services, substitute care, and supervision for a child on a 24-hour basis until the child can return to his or her family or be placed in an adoptive home or another permanent placement. All local departments of social services provide foster care. Adoption provides children who are unable to be raised by their biological parents the chance to become permanent legal members of another family while maintaining genetic and psychological connections to their birth family.Children enter into foster care for many reasons, including abuse, neglect and abandonment. From the time a child enters the foster care system, the child has a "permanency goal" designed to ensure they will have an appropriate family with which to live.
Uniting Families
View the personal story of a couple who helped a critically ill child recover and reunite with his parents while adopting two children of their own.
Foster Parenting
- Expectations of Foster Parents (PDF Link)
- Be a Respite Foster Care Provider (PDF Link)
While many families provide foster care homes for children, the need for more individuals willing to share their home and heart with a child is on-going. Being a foster parent has many challenges and rewards. All foster parents receive support as part of a team of individuals and agencies, working together in the best interests of each child.
The Norfolk Department of Human Services offers Information Sessions about foster parenting throughout the year and provides concurrent training for prospective foster and adoptive parents.
Brochures
Click here for the 2012 Foster/Adoptive Parent Training Schedule.
For Foster Care Information Contact: Nancy Brock | (757) 664 - 6079 | Email
