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Provides foster parent licensing and licensing for pre-adoptive homes.

Places children who have experienced neglect and/or abuse in a safe home. Other services include:

• Counseling services for children, foster parents, and birth parents
• Children advocacy in court
• 24 hour crisis interventions
• Foster home monitoring
• Referrals for birth parents to get help for issues that prevent them from being with their children

Provides placement for children with specialized needs in foster care. "Specialized" refers to children with medical, emotional, behavioral or mental health needs. Also refers to special groups such as adolescents and LGBTQ youth. Provides licensing for adults to foster or adopt children with specialized needs.

?Shelter's Home-of-Relative, Traditional Foster Care, and Emergency Foster Care programs aim to place children in safe, stable, and nurturing environments until they can be reunited with their biological families. When reunification is not possible for safety or other reasons, adoption may be one option, though fostering is typically a temporary commitment.

Provides foster care homes for dependent children who need intensive supervision and therapy.