programs and services
Foster Care is a protective service provided to children in custody of the Department of Family and Protective Services. It provides substitute, temporary care (e.g., foster family home, residential care facility, etc.) for a planned period of time when a child must be separated from his or her own parents or relatives.
our goal
Our highest priority is to match these children and youth in state custody with nurturing families with the proper resources to provide a sage and supportive environment. Foster families come in all varieties, including single parent, same sex, blended families and mixed race. Each year more than 26,000 youth turn 18 without ever having families to call their own. At Crescent City Youth, our job is to find, prepare and support the right family, the right family, the right fit, for each child in the state's care.
placement preferences
When a child enters state custody we work tirelessly to find a foster placement, and eventually a permanent placement with a nurturing family. It's in the best interest of the child to either safely reunify them with their family, or find a relative/kinship placement with extended family, or familiar face, such as a coach or a teacher, within their community. Our priority is to keep siblings together whenever possible.