Foster Care and Adoption

Catholic Charities foster care program helps qualified individuals and couples become licensed foster parents. Our case managers facilitate the initial training and continue to provide ongoing training, resources and support. We recruit and support foster parents, therapeutic foster parents, kinship foster parents and unaccompanied minor foster parents.

Empty Nesters Take on Foster Care

Baby Boomers and Generation Xers have raised their own biological children—and instead of calling it quits, they are finding they have the financial and emotional…

Experienced Foster Mom Gives Advice

After raising three biological children, Darlene and her husband, Bill, decided to become foster care parents—a journey that led them to adopt five children, four…

Insider's Look into Foster Care

With nearly 19,000 children in the state foster care system and fewer than 4,500 licensed foster homes, one local charity wants to remind people that…