Needed: (Hispanic) Foster Parents to Care for Children in Kentucky

“I am the Clinical Director for a private, therapeutic foster care agency in Kentucky, overseeing services provided for foster children/youth in our agency that have been placed with us from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS). We have been licensed for the past 11 years, to provide foster care services for children/youth who have been neglect and/or abused, and then removed from their families. We are in need of Hispanic foster parents in light of recent referrals to our agency, where we had no Hispanic families to care for children. WE CURRENTLY HAVE NO HISPANIC FAMILIES, to care for Hispanic and/or non-Hispanic children/youth. Daily, we receive referrals from CHFS on sibling groups and adolescents that we cannot accept because we have no families that can absorb them into their homes, either because they are full, cannot take Hispanic children (due to communication problems), or may not want teenagers.

We are ALWAYS in need of foster parents, single or married, of any race, creed, color, or ethnicity. We provide an orientation (at one’s convenience) to answer basic questions about becoming a foster parent, and provide training, at no cost, in order to certify those interested in becoming certified state foster parents. We pay families a daily reimbursement, monthly, for per child, to care for children (Hispanic or not, of course), and these children come with health insurance.   Is there typically money left over at the end of a month to do with as you please? Absolutely, as long as the child’s needs are met first. Lots of information can be provided at orientation. Please phone me, Scott, at:  (Toll free, Monday thru Friday) 1.866.485.0722.

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