Families Sought For

Foster And Adoptive Children

FAM, the Foster Adoptive Mission, is currently recruiting families to be foster and adoptive parents throughout Connecticut. FAM is a federally funded, community collaborative comprised of local community leaders, nonprofit child welfare agencies, town and state agencies, local corporations, and individual foster and adoptive parents. Its mission is to find safe, nurturing homes for children of all ages in the Connecticut foster care system.

Teenagers are an often underserved population in foster care and regularly wait too long to find good, loving homes. FAM needs patient, responsible, loving adults with enough time to help them during their time of need. Finding temporary homes for infants has also become increasingly challenging in recent years due to the increase in two-parent working families and the challenge of finding daycare on short notice.

Foster families receive assistance with medical insurance and a tax-free stipend to cover the costs associated with fostering a child. Children adopted through the Connecticut foster care system are eligible for a free college education (at the UConn reimbursement rate when they register at the college of their choice).

FAM provides information and assistance in locating the right licensing agency for each family. The organization will walk prospective parents through the maze of child welfare providers (DCF and private) and assist in identifying a match to fit each family’s needs. There is no cost or obligation.  All of FAM’s costs are covered by a federal grant from The Adoption and Safe Families Act.

For more information contact FAM at 203-706-0101 or view its website, www.fosteradoptivemission.org.