First Home Care offers foster care and adoption services for children who require out-of-home, community-based placement in a family setting. Comprehensive, coordinated and nurturing care is provided in the homes of trained treatment families with support, supervision and 24-hour crisis intervention available from mental health professionals.

Foster care and adoption offers:

• Case management and care coordination to ensure all needs are addressed
• A secure environment for children with emotional, social and educational issues
• Ongoing support of positive relationships with the child’s family, when appropriate
• Facilitation of each child’s ability to trust and develop healthy relationships
• Trained foster parents who are equipped to manage a vast continuum of emotional, behavioral, intellectual and mental health issues
• A treatment team that collaboratively develops and monitors goals and objectives
• Linkage to and collaboration with appropriate and effective community resources
• Service assessment and planning
• Casey Life Skills
• Crisis support is available 24/7, including safety planning
• Focus on the attainment of permanency
• One-on-one in-service training
• CARF accredited
• Medication management available

To learn more about our services, or to become a foster parent, call 757-393-7200. We are here to answer your questions and guide you through the process. If you are experiencing an emergency, please dial 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.