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A Place To Call Home provides all necessary training to become a licensed Child Developmental Home (CDH) to provide foster care for a child with developmental disabilities. Children are placed by the Arizona Department of Economic Security's Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD). 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 children with developmental disabilities may provide care for up to three children.
Foster care for children placed by DDD 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 DDD Foster Care for Children
is a specialized program for
children placed in foster care,
ages 0 to 18 years of age, that
have been diagnosed with a
develop- mental disability.
Children in licensed Child
Developmental Homes are placed
by the Division of Developmental
Disabilities as a foster child
and many times with the
involvement of the child's
parents, working cooperatively
to ensure the child may receive
the benefit of specialized care
services for their developmental
disability offered by a Child
Developmental Home.
Developmental disabilities are
characterized as having one or a
component of the four primary
disabilities: Cognitive
Disability, Epilepsy, Autism or
Cerebral Palsy.
Children placed in foster homes
require very special care and
extraordinary commitment from
their foster parents. Children
in foster care may not have
received sufficient care for
their special needs and could
have experienced some form of
abuse, neglect and/or
abandonment. Other times, the
child's parents are lovingly
seeking experienced and expert
care to assure that all the care
needs for their child are met.
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