Foster Care Organizations
Series: Related Organizations Lists
Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
Includes organizations that provide information on foster care and/or are dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth currently in the foster care system. If you are aware of any others, please contact Child Welfare Information Gateway at OrganizationUpdates@childwelfare.gov. Inclusion on this list is for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by Child Welfare Information Gateway or the Children's Bureau.
ABA Center on Children and the Law
1050 Connecticut Ave. N.W
Suite 400
Washington, District of Columbia 20036
Phone: (202) 662-1000
Fax: (202) 662-1755
The ABA Center on Children and the Law seeks to improve the laws, policies, and judicial procedures affecting children by supporting legal representation for youth, facilitating coordination between attorneys and caseworkers, reducing court delays, and providing training to court professionals involved in child welfare. ABA also supports: National Reunification Month and updates this website each June.
nadid: 11192
American Academy of Pediatrics - Foster Care
345 Park Boulevard
c/o American Academy of Pediatrics
Itasca, Illinois 60143
Toll-Free: (800) 433-9016
Fax: (847) 434-8000
Email: fostercare@aap.org
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) provides relevant and up to date health care resources for pediatricians, parents, child welfare agencies and others who care for children and adolescents who are involved in the child welfare system. AAP highlights foster care tools and resources for pediatricians, and foster care resources for parents, families, and caregivers at Healthy Children.
nadid: 24494
Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Phone: (410) 547-6600
Fax: (410) 547-6624
The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
nadid: 11142
Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (AAICPC)
1101 Wilson Blvd
6th Floor
American Public Human Services Association
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Phone: (202) 682-0100
Fax: (202) 289-6555
The AAICPC consists of members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. AAICPC has the authority to carry out the rules and terms of the the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), which establishes uniform legal and administrative procedures governing the interstate placement of children and is statutory law in all fifty-two member jurisdictions and a binding contract between member jurisdictions.
nadid: 11081
Boys Town
14100 Crawford Street
Boys Town, Nebraska 68010
Phone: (402) 498-1300
Toll-Free: (800) 448-3000
Fax: (402) 498-1348
Boys Town provides a continuum of care for children and families. Boys Town works to reunite children with their families, find foster homes for others, provide a Boys Town family for those with nowhere else to turn, and help families remain together.
nadid: 11066
Care Portal
CarePortal is a platform that brings together diverse constituents–government agencies, churches, businesses, schools, and other ministries–to support children and families in need.
nadid: 30314
Casey Family Programs
1123 23rd Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122-4821
Toll-Free: (800) 496-2230
Casey Family Programs works in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories and with more than a dozen tribal nations to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families, and the communities where they live. Founded in 1966, they learn from and collaborate with communities at local, state, tribal, and national levels to nurture the safety and success of children.
nadid: 11152
Chapin Hall Center for Children
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 256-5100
Fax: (773) 753-5940
Email: webmaster@chapinhall.org
Chapin Hall is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. The Center devotes special attention to children facing significant problems such as abuse or neglect, poverty, and mental or physical illnesses, and to the service systems designed to address these problems.
nadid: 11160
Child Trends
7315 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1200W
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: (240) 223-9200
Fax: (240) 200-1238
Email: fwalter@childtrends.org
Child Trends is a research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses. Among the major areas of research and evaluation are the effects of welfare and poverty on children; issues related to parenting, family structure and fatherhood; and major indicators of children's health and well-being.
nadid: 11163
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
330 C Street, S.W
Washington, District of Columbia 20201
Toll-Free: (800) 394-3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and the general public to information and resources targeted to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.
nadid: 17904
Child Welfare League of America
Headquarters
727 15th St. NW Suite 1200
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
Phone: (202) 688-4200
Fax: (202) 833-1689
Email: cwla@cwla.org
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest national organization serving vulnerable children, youth, and their families. CWLA provides training, consultation, and technical assistance to child welfare professionals and agencies while also educating the public on emerging issues that affect abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Through its publications, conferences, and teleconferences, CWLA shares information on emerging trends, specific topics in child welfare practice (family foster care, kinship care, adoption, positive youth development), and Federal and State policies.
nadid: 11165
Children and Family Research Center
1010 W Nevada
Suite 2080
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 333-5837
Toll-Free: (800) 638-3877
Fax: (217) 333-7629
Email: cfrc@uiuc.edu
The Children and Family Research Center (CFRC) is dedicated to supporting and conducting research that contributes to keeping children safe, assuring permanent homes for children, and supporting child and family well-being.
The CFRC is an independent research organization created at the School of Social Work by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
The CFRC is an independent research organization created at the School of Social Work by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
nadid: 13333
Children's Bureau
330 C Street, S.W.
Third Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20201
The Children's Bureau, the oldest Federal agency for children and families, is located within the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. The Bureau is responsible for assisting States in the delivery of child welfare services designed to protect children and to strengthen families. The Bureau provides grants to States, Tribes, and communities to operate a range of child welfare services including child protective services, family preservation and support, foster care, adoption, and independent living.
nadid: 11167
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
655 New York Ave NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001
Phone: (202) 544-8500
Fax: (202) 544-8501
Email: info@ccainstitute.org
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to raising awareness about the foster children in this country and the orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic need of a family.
nadid: 12969
Family Focused Treatment Association
294 Union Street
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601-4303
Phone: (201) 343-2246
Toll-Free: (800) 414-3382
Fax: (201) 489-4593
Email: ffta@ffta.org
The Foster Family-Based Treatment Association is a membership organization committed to enhancing the lives of children and their families by strengthening family-based organizations. Treatment foster care is a model of care that provides children with a combination of traditional foster care and residential treatment centers, with the treatment occurring within the foster family home.
nadid: 11190
Foster America
Phone: (202) 780-9405
Email: INFO@FOSTER-AMERICA.ORG
Foster America is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the lives of America’s most vulnerable children: those in foster care or at risk of entering the system.
nadid: 30197
Foster Care Alumni of America
5810 Kingstowne Center Drive
Suite 120-730
Alexandria, Virginia 22315
Phone: (918) 862-2586
Toll-Free: (888) ALU-MNI0
The mission of Foster Care Alumni of America is to connect the alumni community and to transform policy and practice, ensuring opportunity for people in and from foster care.
nadid: 19483
Foster Care to Success
23811 Chagrin Boulevard
Suite 210
Cleveland, Ohio 44122
Phone: (571) 203-0270
Fax: (855) 773-8299
Email: info@fc2success.org
Foster Care to Success' mission is to provide opportunities for America's foster youth to continue their education, to increase awareness of the number and plight of older teens leaving the maze of foster care, to highlight the potential of America's foster youth and the importance of supporting their dreams, and to offer direct opportunities for citizens, business, and civic organizations to assist older foster youth.
Foster Care to Success was formerly the Orphan Foundation of America.
Foster Care to Success was formerly the Orphan Foundation of America.
nadid: 11072
Foster Love
Phone: (714) 784-6760
Foster Love, formerly Together We Rise is a nonprofit organization comprised of motivated young adults and former foster youth who wish to improve the lives of children in foster care. Foster Love works with hundreds of child welfare agencies, social workers, advocates, and other partners to bring resources to youth in foster care and use service-learning activities to educate volunteers on issues related to the foster care system.This foundation has provided thousands of youth in foster care across the country with new bicycles, college supplies, and suit cases so that they do not have to travel from home to home with their belongings in a trash bag.
nadid: 30352
FosterClub
620 S Holladay
Suite 1
Seaside, Oregon 97138
Phone: (503) 717-1552
Fax: (503) 717-1702
Email: info@fosterclub.com
FosterClub provides encouragement, motivation, information, education, and benefits for foster youth. The website provides information relating to foster care including articles, questions and answers (q+a), message boards, contests, discussion of foster care topics, and biographies of famous people who grew up in care.
nadid: 13397
Fostering Connections Resource Center/National CASA Association
100 West Harrison Street
North Tower, Suite 500
Seattle, Washington 98119
Phone: (202) 572-6000
TTY: (800) 628-3233
The Fostering Connections Resource Center was established to provide data, online tools, State-specific and Tribal policy information on implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success Act, and contact individuals for each State and Tribes.
The Fostering Connections Resource Center is a coalition of foundations that have joined together to underwrite the costs of establishing the resource center. The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Duke Endowment, Eckerd Family Foundation, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Sierra Health Foundation, Stuart Foundation and the Walter S. Johnson Foundation. Child Trends and The Finance Project are responsible for managing the center.
The Fostering Connections Resource Center is a coalition of foundations that have joined together to underwrite the costs of establishing the resource center. The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Casey Family Programs, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, Duke Endowment, Eckerd Family Foundation, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Sierra Health Foundation, Stuart Foundation and the Walter S. Johnson Foundation. Child Trends and The Finance Project are responsible for managing the center.
nadid: 24145
Freddie Mac Foundation
8250 Jones Branch Drive
Mailstop A40
McLean, Virginia 22102
Phone: (703) 918-8888
Fax: (703) 918-8895
The Freddie Mac Foundation provides funds for various nonprofit organizations that work on behalf of children, youth, and families. The Foundation focuses on children and prevention-oriented programs. Typically, grants are awarded to programs that build strong families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and recruit foster and adoptive parents. Among the Foundation's major programs are Healthy Families America and Wednesday's Child USA, a campaign to promote adoptions.
nadid: 11191
Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs supports a number of efforts to build the skills and resources of youth aged 16-24.
nadid: 29890
Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Phone: (410) 547-6600
Fax: (410) 547.6624
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative is a national foundation whose mission is to help youth in foster care make successful transitions to adulthood. Formed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs, the Initiative brings together the people and resources needed to help youth make the connections they need to education, employment, health care, housing, and supportive personal and community relationships. As a grant-making foundation, the Initiative supports successful community-based efforts that create opportunities and build assets for youth leaving foster care through grants, technical assistance, and coalition building with multiple stakeholders. Grants are made to qualified nonprofit organizations or governmental agencies by invitation only.
nadid: 12994
KidsPeace Corporate Headquarters
5300 Kidspeace Dr
Orefield, Pennsylvania 18069
Toll-Free: (800) 257-3223
Email: kpinfo@kidspeace.org
KidsPeace is a private charity dedicated to serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, families and communities.
KidsPeace offers services in Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
KidsPeace offers services in Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
nadid: 25312
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
100 West Harrison Street
North Tower, Suite 500
Seattle, Washington 98119
Phone: (206) 774-7250
Toll-Free: (800) 628-3233
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a network of 933 community-based programs that recruit, train and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. Volunteer advocates empowered directly by the courts offer judges the critical information they need to ensure that each child's rights and needs are being attended to while in foster care.
nadid: 11021
National Foster Care Coalition
605 North Carolina Avenue, SE, Unit #2
Washington, District of Columbia 20003
Phone: (202) 280-2039
General Scope: The National Foster Care Coalition (NFCC) is a broadly based national, nonpartisan partnership of individuals, organizations, foundations, and associations dedicated to improving the lives of children currently in the foster care system and all of the others who have been, or will be, involved in the foster care system.
nadid: 24048
National Foster Parent Association
1102 Prairie Ridge Trail
Pflugerville, Texas 78660
Phone: (253) 683-4246
Toll-Free: (800) 557-5238
Fax: (888) 925-5634
Email: info@nfpaonline.org
General Scope: The National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) is a nonprofit volunteer organization. The NFPA's purpose is to bring together foster parents, agency representatives, and people in the community to improve the foster care system.
NFPA promotes coordination, cooperation, and communication among foster parents, foster parent associations, child care agencies, and other child advocates in an effort to encourage the recruitment and retention of foster parents.
NFPA promotes coordination, cooperation, and communication among foster parents, foster parent associations, child care agencies, and other child advocates in an effort to encourage the recruitment and retention of foster parents.
nadid: 11009
One Simple Wish
1977 North Olden Avenue
#292
Trenton, New Jersey 08618
Phone: (609) 883-8484
Email: info@onesimplewish.org
One Simple Wish was created with the mission of brightening the lives of thousands of foster children and vulnerable families each year. Wishes are submitted to One Simple Wish through its network of community partners - social service agencies and other nonprofits throughout the United States - that serve foster children and at-risk individuals and families. Please see the website for information on ways to help grant one simple wish.
nadid: 25372
Safe Families For Children
4300 W. Irving Park Road
Chicago, Illinois 60641
Phone: (773) 653-2200
Email: info@safefamilies.net
Safe Families for Children is a faith-based movement motivated by compassion, generosity, and hospitality to keep children safe and families supported facing a crisis. Their goal is to build supportive communities with strong families and safe children.
nadid: 29953
Seneca Family of Agencies
8945 Golf Links Road
Agencywide Administrative Headquarters
Oakland, California 94605
Phone: (510) 654-4004
Toll-Free: (877) 380-5300
Fax: (510) 317-1426
Email: info@senecacenter.org
General Scope: Seneca Family of Agencies (formerly Seneca Center) provides a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services to youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year.
Training Specific: Information on training is available on the Training Registration Page .
Training Specific: Information on training is available on the Training Registration Page .
nadid: 24028
Sevita
Phone: (617) 790-4800
Sevita, formerly the MENTOR Network is a national network of local health and human services providers in a number of States offering an array of quality, community-based services, including family preservation and therapeutic foster care and foster care for medically complex children.
nadid: 29894
Start Foster Care
18 Colonial Court
Cheshire, Connecticut 06410
Phone: (203) 768-5690
Email: subroto@startfostercare.org
Start Foster Care aims to engage foster parents and connect them with child welfare professionals through technology platforms and digital marketing strategies with the vision of supporting youth in care.
nadid: 30282
The Mayfly Project
Arkansas
Phone: (501) 238-6611
Email: kaitlin@themayflyproject.com
The mission of the Mayfly Project is to support and build relationships with children in foster care through fly fishing and the introduction to local water ecosystems, with the hope that connecting children to a rewarding hobby will provide an opportunity for fun activities, meaningful connections, and outdoor experiences.
nadid: 29889
University Center for the Child and Family
500 E. Washington St
Suite 100
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Phone: (734) 764-9466
Fax: (734) 764-8128
The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) is strongly committed to helping children and families enjoy a happier life, more satisfying relationships, and increased success.The goals of the UCCF are to enhance the lives of vulnerable children and families and to shape local, State, and national policies by working with public and private agencies to conduct research, demonstrate new models of service, develop training curricula and provide T/TA, conduct program evaluations, and develop policy recommendations.
nadid: 11211
Youth Communication
242 W 38th St
6th floor
New York, New York 10018
Phone: (212) 279-0708
Fax: (212) 279-8856
Email: info@youthcomm.org
The mission of Youth Communication is to help teenagers, including foster youth, develop their skills in reading, writing, thinking, and reflection, so they can acquire the information they need to make thoughtful choices about their lives.
One of the major programs of Youth Communication is the publishing of the magazine, Represent. Written by and for teens in foster care, Represent provides them a voice to share personal experiences, to plan for their future, and to help them negotiate the present. For more information, see https://youthcomm.org/youth-voice-page/#magazines-enewsletters.
One of the major programs of Youth Communication is the publishing of the magazine, Represent. Written by and for teens in foster care, Represent provides them a voice to share personal experiences, to plan for their future, and to help them negotiate the present. For more information, see https://youthcomm.org/youth-voice-page/#magazines-enewsletters.
nadid: 14932
Youth Law Center
832 Folsom St
Suite 700
San Francisco, California 94107
Phone: (415) 543-3379
Fax: (415) 956-9022
Email: info@ylc.org
The Youth Law Center works to protect children in the nation's foster care and juvenile justice systems from abuse and neglect, and to ensure that they receive the necessary support and services to become healthy and productive adults. The Center's efforts have focused on strengthening families and advocating for education, medical and mental health, legal support, and transition services needed to assure children's success in care and in the community.
nadid: 24251