DCCCA’s Child Placing Agency provides foster care and adoption services in Kansas, supporting families through every step of the process. Our dedicated team offers initial contact, training, and ongoing support to ensure children are placed in safe, nurturing homes. DCCCA emphasizes creating stable environments for children until they can reunite with their biological families or find adoptive homes.

Adopting from foster care provides a stable and caring forever home to children who are unable to be with their biological family. There are two paths to adopt from foster care:

• Adoption from Foster Care – License as a foster home with the potential of adoption.
• Adoption Only – Does not require a foster care license.

Post Adoption: Before adoption, you were focused on the excitement of welcoming a child into your home. After adoption, you may find that you need some help and support that you had not anticipated. We can help you find support for yourself and your adopted child through support groups and training, respite care, and in-home therapy services.

Family Preservation: DCCCA’s philosophy entering this new phase of Family Preservation remains consistent with our successful history. We focus on the strengths and competencies of family members and work in partnership so they can remain safely together. We respect each family as the unit they define for themselves. Our strengths-based belief encourages families to explore their positive traits and successes and creates a trusting relationship to explore root cause trauma and challenges. Our family centered approach is evidenced in the way we involve family in service planning and implementation.

Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) is a specialized in-home service for families who have co-occurring substance use and child welfare concerns, including pregnant women using substances (who have a child under 5 in the home) and families whose infants were born substance exposed. The START approach pairs Case Managers with Family Mentors with lived recovery experience, to facilitate timely access to risk-reducing interventions and addiction treatment.

Therapeutic Family Foster Home (TFFH) is a family home which provides 24-hour care for children and youth with complex needs. DCCCA’s TFFH Program includes intensive support for children at a therapeutic level including children in foster care, children receiving Family Preservation, Family First Prevention Services, or Post-Adoption support services.

We Kan Drive is a program that helps to remove the barriers youth in foster care face when working towards obtaining their driver’s license. Getting a driver’s license is a critical piece to help youth transition into adulthood, and typically parents help support their child learn how to drive and log driving hours. For youth in foster care this can be more challenging. DCCCA and the Kansas Department for Children and Families have partnered together to provide educational and financial support to help teens and young adults throughout Kansas.

Serving as the voice of Kansas Youth in Care since 2000, the Kansas Youth Advisory Council is a statewide, youth-led council who provide positive recommendations and changes to the child welfare system. The KYAC mission is to unite and empower young people directly impacted by the child welfare system and enable them to advocate for themselves and others while developing life and leadership skills.