Provides services to find permanent homes for youth, ages 11 through 18, in the custody of Washington state through the foster care system.   Also recruits, trains and supports foster parents.

Offers services, training, licensing, and ongoing support for foster and kinship kids and families. Helps parents and foster/kinship caregivers build supportive relationships.

Provides home recruitment, licensing, placement and support services for foster children and families. Services offered include foster home licensing, advocacy for caregivers, ongoing training, resource referrals, case aid services, cultural activities and Foster Support Night events.

For nearly 35 years, the Y of Greater Seattle has supported foster parents and provided individualized care to children and youth in foster care. We aim to reunite children and families and welcome LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC families, striving for inclusivity. Permanency Mission Statement We partner with youth, families, and communities to create and achieve permanency, wellness, safety, and stability.

Foster homes that provide mental health support, independent living skills, individual-group-family therapy, educational support, case management, family participation, and coordination of legal services.

Recruits and licenses foster parents in Washington state. Offers online foster parent information sessions via Zoom the first Tu of each month. Works with foster parents, the child, birth parents, community agencies and courts to provide daily care and support for each child. Foster families can opt to work with DCYF staff or with a local private agency. Also investigates complaints received on licensed foster homes and foster care agencies.

Trains and supports individuals and couples to become licensed, long-term foster parents for unaccompanied refugee and immigrant youth; approves host homes to provide affordable housing to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant youth. Youth are primarily teenagers from countries throughout Africa, Asia and Central America.