Foster Care Agencies
Essex County Department of Social Services
Services Provided: 30 hour MAPP classes held 2 x yearly. Information / orientation meetings 3-4 x a year, call for information. Individual orientation meetings available if upcoming meeting not scheduled at time of inquiry. Require course to be completed prior to certification
- Contact Person: Kim Marie
- Address: 7551 Court Street PO Box 217, Elizabethtown, NY
- Phone: 518-873-3424
- Email: kim.marie@dfa.state.ny.us
- Website: http://www.co.essex.ny.us/ChildWelfare.asp
Northern Rivers Family of Services
Services Provided: Northern Rivers Family of Services provides foster, kinship and pre-adoptive homes for children in care. Orientations and foster parent precertification trainings offered virtually and in person at one of the 7 program sites. These site locations are throughout the Capital Region, Hudson Valley, Mohawk Valley, North County and Southern Tier Regions. Each child and family is assigned a skilled Permanency Care Manager to provide case management service in the foster home with the foster parent and youth. Website provides further information and an online foster parent inquiry form.
- Contact Person: Kari Carroll, MS
- Address: 375 Bay Road, Suite 203, Queensbury, NY 12804
- Phone: 518-948-0522
- Email: Kari.Carroll@nrfs.org
- Website: https://www.northernrivers.org/