Join our Foster Care Team.
Thank you for your interest in learning more about foster care and adoption with Family & Children Services.
Please contact Shari Boone @ (269)373-0248 ext. 277 or (269) 344-0202 or sharib@fcsource.org to get started.
Michigan Child Placing Agency Rules require that all prospective foster parents or adoptive parents attend an orientation meeting prior to completing an application. Family & Children Services provides prospective foster and adoptive families with a 2-step orientation process.
We can get you started!
To start the process of becoming a foster or adoptive parent, please follow the steps below:
1. Watch all 4 Orientation I Video Segments
2. Click on the Orientation Video - Discussion Questions
3. Print and complete all Orientation Video - Discussion Questions
4. Choose an Orientation II date from the schedules on the right
5. Please constact Shari Boone (269) 373-0248 ext. 277 or sharib@fcsource.org to reserve your spot in the Orientation II of your choice
6. Bring your completed Orientation Video - Discussion Questions to Orientation II
7. Attend Orientation
Services provided to foster families
• Fostering Footnotes, a quarterly newsletter, is mailed to your home, can be emailed to you, or viewed on our website
• On-going case management services
• Staff support, including a 24-hour emergency on-call
• Foster Parent Support Group
• Mileage reimbursement
• HANDLE WITH CARE - a specialized fund to meet children's critical needs that cannot be met by any other funding source
• Children's Medical Needs Fund
• Case-aide support
• Transportation and mileage reimbursement is available
