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Healing the Hope for Tomorrow

Why You Should Foster a Child

Change a Child's Life

Children and youth in the foster care system have been abused, neglected, abandoned, and face tremendous obstacles. Foster parenting is a powerful way to empower children, and show them that there is hope for the future.

Heal Your Community

Fostering allows the birth family to address and heal from the issues that caused the children to be removed. This reduces homelessness, substance abuse, poverty, untreated mental health and domestic violence issues in your community.

Adoption

We are a fully licensed adoption agency. Our social workers will guide your family through concurrent planning, foster to adopt or being matched to a foster child already looking for a forever family.

Full Services

Our social workers ensure that children in your care get the services they need at no cost to you: medical, dental, mental health, educational, behavioral, etc.

Sibling Groups Need You

The bond between brothers and sisters is strong, and often the longest relationship we have in our lifetime. It is extremely difficult to find homes for foster children in sibling groups and sometimes they are separated due to the lack of available families.
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Monthly Stipend

Monthly stipend is given for all children placed in your home. Financial support continues after adoption. All foster children have full medical and dental insurance.

Keep Kids Local

Due to a shortage of foster and adoptive homes many children have to move hours away when entering foster care, leaving behind their friends, school and community. Help keep your local kids in your community.

Enrich Your Family's Life

Share the things you enjoy about your own family with a child who has never known that before. Experience the joy in watching a child grow and learn.

    How to Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent

    To foster or adopt in California, you must become a Resource Parent by completing the following:

    • Complete an application packet including CPR/first aid certification and a physical exam
    • Pass a background check
    • Pass a home safety check
    • Attend Pre-Approval training classes
    • Complete a home study

    • Contact our nearest office to get started:

    • El Dorado Hills:
      530-626-3105

    • Diamond Springs:
      530-626-3105

    • Jackson:
      209-257-1244

    • Murphys:
      209-890-7124

    • San Andreas:
      209-498-2227

    • South Lake Tahoe:
      530-544-2111

    • Truckee:
      530-544-2111

    Make a Difference, Foster a Child Today

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    I was literally blindsided when we started doing foster care. We live in our little bubbles. I had no idea how bad the drug problems are in our city, but what makes my job easy is we belong to an incredible organization, Sierra Child and Family Services. They've got my back, and they are right there ready to step in and help me in any way they can.

    [Our foster son] was so afraid of males, any time my husband would come in the room he would just cower. It took a long time, but it finally came to the point that he'd go sit next to my husband and lean his arm on his leg. He got healing in our home through our love and our consistency — in living in our stable environment where he didn't have to live in fear. That's my reward.

    April Herrera, foster and adoptive parent

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