Program areas at AFCS
In foster care, we recruit, license, and train foster parents. We work with counties throughout Wisconsin to provide placement and case management for children in need of loving foster homes. We provide "treatment" level foster care to support children who have experienced trauma, and have higher emotional and physical needs. We have foster care offices in green bay, greater milwaukee area, sheboygan/lakeshore, fox valley, janesville, and stevens point.
At the beginning of 2021, Foundations acquired from another nonprofit its rays youth services program, which works in brown, manitowoc and sheboygan counties. Rays is a voluntary, community-based program open to all youth between school-age and 21 years of age. The program is designed to help prevent homelessness and decisions to become a runaway, while navigating youth through the process of transitioning to successful, healthy, and independent living via preventative outreach, education, and other critical resources. Prevention education and outreach are key components of this work, along with providing crisis intervention services for youth who are experiencing homelessness, have run away, or who are at risk or have been trafficked.
Our mental Health and addiction counselors are known for their excellence in therapy outcomes, caring and joyful nature, and leadership in therapy approaches. Our therapists and counselors provide approximately 15,000 sessions of counseling every year at our main clinic, 3 public schools, and 10 community-based clinics embedded in homeless shelters and the aging & disability resource center. Over half of our clients are uninsured or underinsured, and they receive financial support to heal mind and spirit from our generous donors. We lead the effort to address the dearth of therapists and counselors in Wisconsin. Our resident training program trains post-graduate counselors and therapists to obtain their Wisconsin licensure to practice and support our community.