The Youth Villages Foster Care Program allows children with emotional and behavioral problems to receive help from specially trained 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 find a way home.

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.

Many of our children in foster care have experienced devastating trauma that has led to their emotional and behavioral troubles. They need loving, patient foster parents who can help them by providing the care, structure and consistency they need.

To help foster parents care for our children, Youth Villages provides free training, 24-hour support from our counseling staff and a monthly reimbursement.

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.