Our fully staffed licensing department appreciates the opportunity to meet with and guide prospective foster parents through the licensing process. They will meet with current foster parents who may have questions or concerns regarding their license and work with them to reach acceptable answers.
Our placement staff works with the State to ensure appropriate placements are made in our homes. We strive to make lasting, well-planned placements with the foster parents’ skills and the children’s best interests in mind.
CFSF offers Receiving Care Services to Washington State. This service offers bed space available at anytime during the day or night for those children with immediate safety needs. The Receiving Cares homes have been those of our most experienced and skilled foster parents who are willing and able to assess the needs of children and communicate those needs. To learn more please click here.
CFSF is committed to permanency for all children. We have the ability to license foster parents in most areas of our state and support our families interested in foster-to-adopt. Over the years we have seen nearly 300 of Washington State’s children adopted into our homes. With this said we (CFSF) are not an “adoption agency”. If a family is looking at private adoption, out of state adoption or international adoption we are not able to assist. This family should seek the help of an adoption agency or attorney. It is our wish that your journey to find permanency for children is successful. Please do not hesitate to contact our Licensing Department with any of your questions.
Foster parents are assigned a Case Manager to work with them and the children in their home. Case Managers complete safety checks, work with State Social Workers to ensure the child’s needs are met and their rights are honored.
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Wraparound is a planning process that follows a series of steps to help children and their families realize their hopes and dreams. The wraparound process also helps make sure children and youth grow up in their homes and communities. It is a planning process that brings people together from
different parts of the whole family’s life. With help from one or more facilitators, people from the family’s life work together, coordinate their activities, and blend their perspectives of the family’s situation.
Each office offers training sessions throughout the year. Foster parents and employees are welcome to attend. Training sessions have included: Pre-Service Training (for those seeking foster care license), Minimum Licensing Requirements, Mandated Reporting, CPA Investigations, PAY/SAY, Reactive Attachment Disorders, Drug and Alcohol Education, Verbal De-Escalation, Bright Futures for Mental Health, Visitation Training. CFSF also has a staff member certified to conduct First Aid and CPR Training sessions.
CFSF offers multiple opportunities for clinical and program consultation to staff, foster parents, birth and extended families and external constituents:
- Schools
- DCYF
- Juvenile Justice
- Behavior Health Providers
Consultations are designed to provide individualized strategies to support sustained stability and permanency in foster homes, with Kinship families, schools, and to enhance wraparound support for families.
CFSF individualized consultations offered in as a resource that compliment traditional CFSF trainings for families and to staff and external constituents (DCYF, behavioral health, legal, schools, etc.).
Consultations are offered at times that are convenient for families. Consultations can be offered to families on a recurring basis so that families can experience ongoing support.
CFSF consultations are skill based, providing parents and caregivers specific strategies to address the challenges that they identify including:
- escalated behavior challenges (oppositionality, defiance, physical and verbal aggression, power struggle behaviors, etc.)
- challenges within school environments
- collaborating with birth and extended families
- addressing licensing referrals
- understanding and collaborating with behavior health providers
When requesting respite, please call or email your Respite Coordinator at least a week in advance. CFSF will always try to fill your respite request… but the longer the notice, the better the chance!
Respite for any foster child must be called in to your Respite Coordinator. If you are asked by another foster parent, agency or a state worker to provide respite for a child, please contact your Respite Coordinator prior to accepting.
When your foster child goes to a respite home be sure to supply that home with medication, medication log, HSSP, the Consent To Transport Form and any other information you feel is important. And please make every effort to discuss drop-off/pick-up times and adhere to those times. If you will be late, call the respite provider.
Direct Deposit is available to foster parents & staff and highly encouraged. If you would like to set up direct deposit, please fill out the Direct Deposit Form and return it with a voided check.
Direct Deposit Form.pdf
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Questions or concerns about your check? Please send them to jeda@cfsf.net
Reminder:
Payday will be on the 10th of each month.
If the 10th falls on a weekend, checks will be ready on the prior Friday.
If the 10th falls on a holiday, your check will be ready the day before the holiday (if that day is a weekend, the Friday before).
Staff members wanting to change their withholding amounts can do so at any time of the year by filling out and turning in a current W-4.
Foster care reimbursements:
As per Washington State Legislature, WAC 182-512-0820, section 4, foster care payments received for a child placed by a licensed, nonprofit child placement agency are excluded from income.