Franklin County Department of Social Services

Services Provided: 30 Hour MAPP training held 2 x yearly.  Call for information on orientation sessions.  Need families for teens ages 12 and up.

  • Contact Person: Bianca Roriquiz
  • Address: 355 West Main Street #331, Malone, NY 12953 
  • Phone:  518-481-1812

Hillside Children’s Center Central Region

Services Provided: Multi-service agency based in Rochester, NY providing long-term and short term therapeutic foster care services in 20 NYS counties.  Syracuse office serves Onondaga, Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Oswego and Tompkins counties. office Pre-certification training and home study takes 3-6 months.  Emphasis placed on working with birth families.  Foster families receive weekly visits from FP support team, 24 hour on-call support and respite services. Also provides infant, international, and special needs adoptions services.


 

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.


Madison County Department of Social Services

Services Provided: Families who call for information are sent application packet and invited to information meeting held  about 6 weeks prior to 30 hour MAPP course offered 2 x yearly. Adoptive families needed for children ages 8 and above.  Families with an indicated abuse / neglect report are automatically disqualified.


The House of the Good Shepherd

Services Provided: Looking for homes where kids who have experienced trauma can receive guidance, support and a caring family. You might be surprised at the diversity of our foster parent families. They might be young parents, empty nesters, single child families, or those unable to have children of their own. We especially encourage relatives of our children to consider foster care. We call it “kinship,” and it’s a wonderful way for a child to stay in familiar surroundings with people he or she knows.  In Utica area, call Jamie Andrews or Sue Novak at 315.235.7700.  In Watertown area, call Jason Hibbard or Gayle Reilly at 315.782.8064.