Our foster care programs include short-term care, treatment care, foster care to adoption, respite care and mentoring. For more information contact, Juanita Blalock, LCSW (jblalock@caseyfamilyservices.org).

Foster Care to Adoption
We seek out foster parents who have a willingness to adopt a foster child. Throughout the training to become foster parents, they and the foster children are also prepared for the transition to adoption.

Treatment Care
Treatment Foster Care is designed for children with severe emotional challenges who come from an institutional setting or are likely to be placed in one. Typically, these children have a history of severe abuse, neglect or chaotic home lives. The goal is to provide a supportive family environment in which a child's struggle to forge a normal life has the greatest chance of success. The critical needs of these troubled children are addressed through treatment strategies developed by multi-disciplinary teams of professionals.

Short-Term Foster Care
These services are for children and families where the goal is to return the children to their birth families. An important element of short-term care is the reunification services to reunite and support children in out-of-home care, with their birth or extended families. Eligible children referred to Casey Family Services are those removed from their birth families for the first time and with a permanency plan that calls for reunification. Reunification referrals come from the New Britain and Hartford regional DCF offices. Until reunification, children live in a Casey or state foster home. For more information, contact kspence@caseyfamilyservices.org.

Respite Care
This is a program under which trained individuals who have undergone a home study and requisite screening take a foster child into their homes for a weekend or other limited period of time. This is designed to give our full-time foster parents a needed break. Respite care is for foster children in our care.

Mentoring
The interest of caring adults is important to the healthy development of all children, particularly foster children. Through our mentoring and tutoring programs, we help children and adults to sustain positive connections that can help foster children deal with the challenges they face. Overcoming difficulties is critical to their overall development and future success. These positive relationships also help to build a "community of care" for foster families.

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