Program areas at SCFFAA
Foster Care: We recruit, train, certify, and support foster parents to care for children entering the child welfare system. Children remain in foster care temporarily until they can safely reunify with their family, are adopted, or age out of foster care and transition into adulthood. Our work is to find families for children, not children for families.
Adoption: We join children and families through adoption. Our foster-to-adopt program bridges the gap between a child's need for temporary support and long-term care with a forever family. When a child in foster care cannot reunify with a biological family member, we facilitate permanency through adoption.
Transition Age Youth: Our UP4Youth program supports young adults who will soon or have recently aged out of the foster care system and are making the transition into adulthood. Youth are empowered with resource coordination, employment services, education planning, and one-on-one mentoring as they make the critical transition to self-sufficiency.
Advocacy: We advocate for improvements in child welfare policies and practices locally and statewide, striving to create a more equitable and supportive environment for all children and families involved in the foster care system.