A Place To Call Home provides all necessary training to become a licensed Family Foster Home for foster children placed by the Arizona Department of Economic Security’s Administration for Children, Youth and Families (ACYF). On-going support and supervision is provided by A Place To Call Home as well as any specialized or individualized training that is deemed necessary to enhance the skill level of foster parents, in particular, for the special needs of foster children. A licensed foster home for ACYF Regular Foster Care may provide care for up to five children. Foster care for children placed by ACYF can be temporary or long term, as the case plan for many children in foster care is typically return to home or adoption. A Place To Call Home places great emphasis and takes diligent time in matching foster children to their foster family. In an effort to contribute to a successful family dynamic, a child (ages 0 to 18) profile is constructed to identify the child best suited for your family as well as the best family suited for the child. The child profile information is collected from the foster family, incorporating the special needs of a foster child, the family’s skill level and the family’s care interests.

The ACYF Regular Foster Care program is for children in foster care, ages 0 to 18 years of age, with a majority of children placed ranging in age from 0 to 10 years. The ACYF Regular Foster Care program is for children that are new to the foster care system, need emergency placement, need of a different foster care placement, are being placed for long term foster care, or are being moved for foster-adoptive placement. A child is placed in foster care when the child has been removed from the legal custody of their parents or guardians by the State of Arizona’s Child Protective Services (CPS) or voluntarily placed in foster care by their birth parents or legal guardian. Whether a child’s foster care needs are short term or long term, children may become eligible for adoption if the parental rights of the birth parents are severed. Children in foster care require very special care and extraordinary commitment from their foster parents. Children in foster care commonly have suffered physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment and/or neglect and are in desperate need for a safe home with a loving and committed foster family.