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Therapeutic Family Foster Care & Adoption

General Info

Providing learning, safe and loving family systems is the goal of Easter Seals UCP's therapeutic & family foster care program.  Families are trained and supported to provide nurturing family environments to children and adolescents needing out-of-home placement.  The program focuses on and supports the strengths and abilities of children and their families.  The placement of children in therapeutic foster care requires therapeutic support from the foster parents and the Easter Seals UCP team to ensure the success of the child.  Professionally trained therapeutic foster parents and respite providers work intensively with the child on independent living skills, conflict resolution, healthy self-images and appropriate interpersonal relationships.  Children needing therapeutic foster care come from a variety of circumstances and experiences in their lives, but have a common need for temporary care outside their permanent residence.  Shared parenting and family reunification skills are developed for a successful return to family systems when possible.  Additionally, Easter Seals UCP can support adoption of children who have been placed for care in our licensed homes when reunification with their birth families is no longer an option.

Professional Info

Easter Seals UCP provides a full array of our of home placement services.  These include family foster care, therapeutic foster care, adoption, residential supports, and additional CAP services.  Currently there are 263 families licensed with ESUCP to provide placement services throughout North Carolina. ESUCP provides training and support for a wide range of special services within the placement spectrum, such as medically fragile, dual diagnosis, shared parenting and behavioral and crisis diversion. 

Professional leadership is maintained through connection to Foster Family-based Treatment Association and Child and Family Services Association and additional referral opportunities are available with Rapid Resource for Families.  Rapid Resource for Families is a collaboration of four agencies that provide therapeutic foster care; additional information is available at http://ncrapidresource.org.

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