DCCCA Resource Family Services
Child Placing Agency Services Across Kansas

You Can Make a Difference. Open your home, Open your heart.

Foster homes provide a stable caring environment to children. Foster children come in all shapes, sizes, and ages with individual needs and preferences. DCCCA provides support to foster families to address these individual needs. You can choose to care for one or more children, opt for children with special needs, or just provide respite care.

DCCCA is a licensed Child Placing Agency in the state of Kansas and the Family Preservation Contractor for three state regions. We are in need of resource families in your community to care for children who are unable to live with their birth family and must be removed from the home. At the time of placement, DCCCA Family Preservation workers and Resource Family workers will have access to and be involved in sharing vital information concerning the child. DCCCA Resource Family workers will work with you to assist in providing the best possible services for children and families.

Our Mission:

We believe in every child's right to a stable placement with trained foster parents who are dedicated to his or her:

• emotional and physical well being
• educational opportunity and
• permanency with the birth or adoptive family

Who can be a Foster Parent?: Single or married With or without children of your own Must be in sufficient good health Must be 21 years of age Homeowners or renters Interested? You must be able to: Secure and maintain state foster home licensing with the assistance of DCCCA staff Give without the expectation of immediate returns Have room in your home and in your daily life Learn and use proven behavioral management skills Love and care for children with challenges Maintain confidentiality regarding the child and his or her circumstances

Training:

DCCCA recruits, licenses and trains foster parents using the Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP) curriculum.

Our staff will help you qualify for and maintain state licensing as a family foster home. Training for all family foster homes covers:

1. An orientation to DCCCA, it's mission and vision
2. The foster parent as a mandated reporter
3. The rights/responsibilities of foster parent as a service provider
4. Kansas and DCCCA policy on non-physical discipline
5. Model Approach to Partners in Parenting (MAPP), a series of 10 three-hour training sessions.

DCCCA Benefits :

Why should you consider becoming a foster family through DCCCA?

• At the time of placement, DCCCA Family Preservation workers have worked directly with child and birth family and will have all important information regarding the child
• We assign a social worker to your home who you can contact 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• DCCCA provides foster parent liability insurance
• Continuing education, training and support groups for resource parents
• In exchange for providing a safe and supportive home environment, DCCCA will provide you with a daily reimbursement, paid every two weeks, to help cover costs for providing care to foster children. Rates paid to you by DCCCA vary depending on the needs and challenges of each child.
• Range of payment to resource parents from $21.00 to $50.00 per day per child
• As a DCCCA foster parent, you are allowed two days of respite care (vacation) per month at no cost to you.