Services
Protection Services
These types of services include conducting child investigation on referrals, apprehensions, assessments, planning, counseling and placement of children in care.
Fostering Children in Care:
What is Fostering?Foster care is providing a temporary, safe, nurturing, stable and loving home for children who have to come into care of Awasis Agency for numerous reasons.
Foster care is accepting a child as part of your family.
Who can Foster?Couples or single people with or without children can apply to become licensed foster families.
How do you become a Foster Parent?
In order to become a foster parent for Awasis Agency there are some prerequisites. We are looking for people who have the desire and patience to care for and nurture a child or children who need to be placed in a loving, caring home.
Awasis Agency requires foster parent applicants to complete the following:
- Application for a License to Operate and Maintain a Children's Foster Home
- Notice of Agreement to Provide Foster Placement
- Consent to medicals
- Foster Parent Application Form
- Provide four character references
- Consent to a Criminal Name Check
- Consent to Child Abuse Registry and Prior Contact Checks
- Sign Oath of Confidentiality
*All foster home applicants are subject to a physical home inspection*
Once all checks and references have been confirmed, a home study will be conducted on your family. If your home is successful in meeting all the licensing requirements, a foster home license will be issued.
