Child and Family Service's
Therapeutic Foster Care Program

What is Therapeutic Foster Care?

Therapeutic foster care is a specialized program in which children with special physical, psychological or emotional needs are unable to live with their natural family for any of a variety of reasons and are placed with specially trained foster parents while a plan is made to provide for the child's long-term care.

Why Be a Foster Parent?

  1. You can be constructively involved in the lives of children who need a stable, loving, home environment.
  2. You are paid a stipend plus a support allowance for each child placed in your home. All payments to foster parents for foster care are not taxable income.
  3. You receive training for this challenge that may also be useful in your own family.
  4. You can make a difference for children who have no where else to go, allowing them to grow and learn under your guidance.
  5. You receive continuing agency support, periodic training and emergency access to an agency social worker 24 hours a day.

Program Goals

  1. Provide a safe, nurturing home environment for children with special needs.
  2. Seek solutions to the problems that took the child away from his natural parents.
  3. Secure as permanent a home as possible, as soon as possible, for the child.

Who do I Contact for more information?

Deborah Winnie-Peterson, ACSW
Foster Care Supervisor
Child and Family Service of South Hampton Roads, Inc.
1805 Airline Blvd., Portsmouth, VA 23707
Phone: (757) 397-2121 FAX: (757) 399-3316

About Child and Family Service

Child and Family Service of Southwest Hampton Roads, Inc. is a private, not for profit, Family Service agency which has served the greater Hampton Roads area for over 35 years.

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