Treatment Foster Parents at AFGC do extraordinary things for the children in their care. We are currently recruiting families who are interested in the challenge of providing a home and care for special adolescents. We provide pre-service and ongoing training, 24 hour support, and a generous stipend to our treatment foster parents. Foster children are involved in an after school and summer program that provides ongoing group, individual and family therapy at our office. Our staff and Treatment Foster Parents work together to meet the needs of the foster children.

The foster home is the core of a treatment program designed to help adolescents grow and develop in a safe, structured environment. Treatment Foster Parents help children learn to deal with emotional problems, learn to trust others, and learn to set and achieve goals for the future.

Treatment Foster parents are role models who provide the day to day care, communication and supervision that adolescents need. Foster parents report that having foster children “completes their family,” gives them “additional people to care about,” and “teaches their natural children the importance of sharing and giving to others.” They also say that foster parenting is challenging work and requires “more patience and effort than they thought possible.” . AFGC provides a high level of support and supervision, and compensation to our treatment foster parents.