Services Resource Homes Mentoring Orientation Form & Contact Information Foster Parents Needed The Loudoun County Foster Care & Adoption Program provides you an opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child!

Services of the Foster Care & Adoption Program

• Provides intervention services to children placed in the custody of the Department of Family Services and their families.

• Secures and supervises the placement of children in custody in appropriate alternative settings.

• Provides support services to birth families in working towards the goal of reunification or alternative permanency plans.

• Through the Independent Living program, provides special skill building services to teens in care to encourage and enhance their successful independence.

• Complies with federal, state and local mandates that set policy and guidelines for child and family service provision.

• Recruits, trains and approves Resource Homes for placement of children in custody on a foster or adoptive basis.

• Recruits, trains and approves teen mentors and teen mentor homes that will provide guidance and support to adolescents as they approach young adulthood.

• Provides in-service training and support to families providing foster care, adoption and mentor care.

Resource Homes

Who can be Resource Parents?

You can be a Resource Parent, if you are:

• Single, married or divorced
• At least 21 years of age
• Have your own source of income
• Have enough living space in either an apartment or house
• Are able to work with an agency, the children’s families, schools and others
• Can help a child cope with separation and loss from family and the effects of abuse and neglect until the child returns home or is placed in other permanent placement.

Our Children

Children who come into foster care range in age from infant through 18 years of age.  They come from diverse backgrounds. They may have experienced abuse, neglect or lived in families in need of supportive services.

What they all share is the need to have a safe and stable environment. Someplace where they can regain trust in their world and a sense of self-worth a connection to a family and a community that offers flexible guidance and understanding.

Types of Programs

Regular Foster Home
Provides stable, supportive care to children who stay in placement from a few weeks to one or two years, with the goal of returning home.

Resource Home
Dually licensed for both foster care and adoption, commits to providing care to children for as long as the child needs - working with the child and birth families on either a foster or adoptive basis.

Child-Specific Home
Relative or close friend of a child in care, who is familiar with the family circumstances and the child’s needs.

Mentoring

Mentor Home
Provides housing, support and guidance to youths over the age of 16, who have a goal of Independent Living.

Teen Mentor
Volunteer who can make a year commitment to assist a teen in foster care in making a successful transition to adulthood by offering  support, guidance and companionship on a bi-weekly basis.

Orientation Form & Contact Information

For more information, contact the Foster Care & Adoption Program at 703-737-8824 or attend an informational meeting held on the second Tuesday of the month. A registration form is available online that you may print out and send in.

• Meeting Registration Form

More information is also available from the Loudoun County Association of Resource Families.

• Association of Resource Families Brochure 
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