The Youth Villages Treatment Foster Care Program allows children with emotional and behavioral problems to receive help from specially trained treatment parents and then to be reunited with their relatives or go to adoptive homes.

Foster Care was the first program Youth Villages began as it branched out from its origins in residential treatment. Since 1992, our foster parents in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama have helped nearly 3,000 children.

Our foster care recruiters help find caring people who are willing to open their hearts and homes to children who cannot safely remain with their birth families or who have completed residential treatment and are ready to transition toward a permanent home.

Our foster parents provide temporary homes for these children and actively help children continue their treatment for emotional and behavioral problems.

Youth Villages foster parents receive a tax-free monthly reimbursement, free training, and 24-hour support from our counseling staff.

Nearly 75 percent of the children who leave our foster care program each year are successfully reunited with their own families, sometimes with support from counselors in our Intensive In-Home Services Program. Others are adopted – sometimes by their Youth Villages foster parents.

As a Youth Villages foster parent, you can make a difference in the lives of troubled children in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. To learn more about foster parenting, the children who need foster homes or what it takes to become a foster parent, contact the foster parent recruiter for your area.